That obituary with the writing “anniversary” and underneath “Fiamma Tricolore remembers Benito Mussolini” with an appointment for a religious celebration scheduled for today, April 28, at 7pm did not go unnoticed by the Catania Curia. «The Holy Mass in the Santa Caterina church in Catania, to remember Benito Mussolini, has been cancelled», decided Archbishop Luigi Renna who also ordered the closure of the church this afternoon until tomorrow, 29 April.
«The decision is motivated by Monsignor Renna to avoid that on the sidelines of a suffrage mass there could be inappropriate ideological expressions which in the recent past have had unpleasant precedents», we read in a note from the Etna Archdiocese. Today marks the anniversary of Mussolini’s death, which occurred on 28 April 1945 in Giulino, a hamlet in the municipality of Mezzegra (now Tremezzina), in the province of Como, where the founder of fascism was shot together with his lover Clara Petacci.
The case has a precedent in 2016. Above we publish a frame of a video acquired by the Digos of the Catania Police Headquarters in 2016, posted on the Meridionews website, which shows the mass celebrated on 28 April 2016 in the church of Santa Caterina in suffrage for the death of Benito Mussolini, seasoned with three fascist salutes. In the film, several dozen people could be seen at the end of the service jumping to attention and answering “present” three times to incitements chanted aloud by a man wearing a black shirt and jacket: “For the Duce of Italy Benito Mussolini”, ” For the fallen of the Social Republic”, “For all the fascist martyrs”.
