Brazil: Italian Priest Killed During a Robbery

[Dawn Marie]

04/30/2012 

Brazil: Italian missionary killed during a robbery

 

Ruy Barbosa

Fr. Plebani, from Brescia, Italy has been found dead in his home in Ruy Barbosa, in Brazil’s north-eastern state of Bahia where he served or many years as a Fidei donum missionary

vatican insider staff
Rome

According to an early reconstruction of events from incomplete information, 65 year old Fr. Luigi Plebani dies after being shot during a robbery at his home.

 

He was ordained priest in 1973, vicar co-operator in Erbanno, in the Italian province of Brescia until 1975 and in Saint Pankraz in Italy’s Trentino-Alto Adige region, until 1979.

 

Fr. Plebani had been working as a missionary in the Diocese of Ruy Barbosa, in Brazil’s north-eastern state of Bahia, since 1980. The missionary, who was born in Rudiano (Brescia) in 1947, was due to return to Italy permanently in a few months time.

 

Local Brescian newspaper Il Giornale di Brescia reported that the news came as a blow to the communities of Rudiano and Saint Pankraz. During the 70’s, when Fr. Plebani was still living there, a number of charity events had been held to raise money for his mission in Brazil.

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[Dawn Marie]

Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord....

Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy+

[Cathleen]

Eternal rest grant unto him, dear Lord, and let Thy perpetual light shine upon him.

May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

+Amen