“I am very happy that these robes are returning to what was my uncle’s diocese.” These are the words with which Angela Moietta, niece of Msgr. Vittorio Moietta, handed over the episcopal robes of the late bishop to Don Marco Mastroianni, postulator of the cause of beatification and canonization of the servant of God.
In recent days, Don Marco was in Brusasco, in the province of Turin, the birthplace of Msgr. Moietta where, among other things, he had the opportunity to meet Mrs. Angela, daughter of a brother of the Piedmontese Prelate, who has vivid memories of when, while still a girl, she visited her uncle in the then diocese of Nicastro, the current diocese of Lamezia Terme, together with his paternal grandmother and other family members.
A bond with the diocese of Lamezia Terme that she too, who lives in the immediate vicinity of what was the birthplace of the servant of God, did not want to sever, feeling particularly tied to this southern city where her uncle left an indelible mark of his ministry, albeit brief, at the helm of the docesis. In recent years, among other things, she has been visiting Lamezia to pray at the tomb of her uncle whose remains, by will of the bishop himself, rest in the cathedral dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul.
The episcopal robes, which over the years have been carefully collected and preserved by the Msgr.’s family. Moietta will now be kept in the diocesan museum where, shortly, a section dedicated to the servant of God will be inaugurated that everyone will be able to visit.
