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We receive and publish the note from a Samnite citizen, Giacomo Santarcangelo, That
“Yesterday was Mother’s Day, one of the most important figures, if not the most important, in our lives.
Those like me who are lucky enough to still have it enjoy it even in the fragility of the years, but those like my wife who have lost it (and even recently) that void is filled with the ritual of memory.
That ritual that makes the figure of a loved one who no longer seems to be still among us.
Every week we go to our municipal cemetery to pay homage to our deceased and my wife changes the flowers weekly, cleans the tombstone and talks to her mother almost as if she were there listening to her.
She is not the first and will not be the last to make those gestures that keep the memory alive.
Gestures that have something sacred, something that goes beyond human reason, but belongs to the reasons of the heart and which, for this reason, deserves everyone’s respect.
However, it often happens that after a few hours of placing fresh flowers near the tombstone, they mysteriously disappear.
Initially we thought it was a gust of wind, then we realized that only the most expensive and showiest flowers disappear.
The wind does not make this selection.
Nor can we place the blame on supernatural phenomena.
Especially when this situation is experienced not only by us, but by many other people.
There is someone who also put up signs threatening that the tombstone of their deceased would be under surveillance by cameras.
Then I learned about a common “underground” trade.
Relatives who live far away commission people from Benevento who frequent our cemetery “daily” to proceed with the weekly change of flowers on the tombstones of their deceased, paying them for their commitment.
A practice which, if carried out with respect for everyone, is praiseworthy because it perpetuates that memory I was talking about before, but if it is carried out with the sole aim of making money, then these ignoble gestures occur with the theft of the best flowers.
I only hope that this public complaint, together with the one made to the relevant authorities, will stop this SHAMEFUL practice perpetrated to the detriment of our deceased and that the Mayor and the responsible Councilor will do everything in their power to unmask the perpetrators” .
Giacomo Santarcangelo
