Sassari. It represented a moment of devotion during which patients, visitors and healthcare workers showed great attachment and dedication to the Virgin.
For many, the visit to the simulacrum of the Madonnina delle Grazie, scheduled for this morning in the hospital departments of Santissima Annunziata, was a long-awaited event.
The small statuette of the Virgin arrived on the square of the civil hospital accompanied by representatives of the Gremio of Massai and by Father Massimo Chieruzzi, guardian friar of the convent of San Pietro in Silki, where the statuette is kept.
Present to welcome them were the chaplains of the Aou of Sassari who, in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Sassari, the Massai and the Friars Minor of Sardinia of San Pietro organized the event. An appointment which, now in its third year, in addition to a visit to the Civil Departments also includes a visit to the inpatient departments of the Viale San Pietro Clinics.
Also present on the square were the health director of the Sassari AOU, Lucia Anna Mameli, and the director of the hospital unit, Paolo Castiglia, to “welcome” the simulacrum.
The simulacrum was then taken over by the first volunteers to be taken to the departments. And the first stop was the Geriatrics, with the director of the facility, Patrizia Tilocca, who brought the simulacrum together with the department coordinator.
In each ward, the statue of the Virgin was then “taken over” by two nurses or two social and health workers who brought it to the patients, inside the hospital rooms. In men’s medicine, however, two patients wanted to welcome the Madonnina and place it on the altar set up by the healthcare workers.
And this time too, many departments set up a small altar to house the simulacrum and outside as well as inside, operators and patients found themselves reciting a prayer.
In other departments, the operators also prepared a real carpet of flowers to welcome the small statue.
The simulacrum first stopped in Geriatrics and then went to Orthopedics, Functional Rehabilitation, Dermatology and Burn Center, Resuscitation, Cardioanesthesia, Medical Pathology and Oncology, Operating block, Dialysis, operating block Neurosurgery, Nephrology, Women’s medicine, Stroke unit, Surgery ‘Emergency, Men’s Medicine, Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Gastroenterology, Emergency Room, Spdc and Oncology Day Hospital.
The statuette was then placed on an altar inside the chapel on the seventh floor of the civil hospital.
In the afternoon, however, the stages of the simulacrum: Mother and Child then Palazzo Clemente, the departments of the two white bars and then the Infectious Diseases building.
