Rolando Rivi
a boy to Jesus
Paul Risso
Editions Walnut
Rolando Rivi
seminarian martyr
Emilio Bonicelli Shalom
are two booklets that recall the short life of the seminarian, Rolando Rivi martyr tortured and brutally murdered at the age of fourteen years by Communist partisans in 1945 in the sad triangle of death in Emilia Romagna.
A boy glued to Jesus Rolando called "My Friend" . A martyr like St. Pancras and St. Tarcisio, lads like him. Persisted even at home to wear the cassock, because he felt to belong to Jesus your friend and this was his death sentence.
In the climate of hatred and ideology in 1945 was brutally martyred.
As in earlier centuries and even now as in the world, Christians are martyrs the sign of the victory of good over evil. It is no coincidence then that miracles happen.
is being the cause of beatification of the young martyr.
blood and love
Emilio Bonicelli
Jaca Book
This is a novel in which the author, said journalist of Il Sole 24 Ore, recalls the story of the martyr seminarian, alternating between the story of an Italian girl , ill with leukemia, Rolando Rivi miracle. In reality it is a young English girl, whose family is Anglican. The author has been ill with leukemia.
