He had arrived in Sinnai three years ago, the new parish priest of the church of Santa Barbara, immediately managing to bond with the town, to approach the parishioners, to be respected.
Don Alberto Pistolesi, 43, with a boy's face, went on with a thousand projects, with kindness in his heart: he had truly become everyone's parish priest.
The news of his death, in a tragic road accident in Quartu , came just as the feast in honor of the patron Saint Barbara was being prepared and left the community in shock.
In the afternoon the priest had foreseen the exposition 17 of the Blessed Sacrament, the prayer of the holy rosary and the recitation of Vespers. At 6 pm he should have celebrated mass. On Saturday, however, the religious rites for the patron saint.
Today Don Alberto went to Quartu with his Multipla, to visit his mother, before returning to Sinnai. Then the terrible crash.
The news of his death shocked the town and neighboring towns. Don Alberto was known by everyone, always ready to be with people, with children, young people, the elderly. Mayor Tarcisio Anedda proclaimed city mourning. "This is the pain of the whole community - said Anedda - Don Alberto was a very busy priest: now he was thinking about the maintenance work of his parish and the bell tower he intervened on the church of San Cosma and Damiano, reopening it for worship even during the week . He celebrated masses in the church of Sant'Elena during the summer. A young, extraordinary priest. Sunday I went to the parish for Virgo Fidelis, on November 25 he blessed the Unknown Soldier Park. Sinnai clings to the family ”.
Don Pistolesi, a native of Quartu Sant'Elena, was vicar in his city, in the parish of San Luca. Then he served at the Santissimo Crocifisso in Cagliari, then in Senorbì. Then the office of director of the diocesan office, that of episcopal vicar and from 2018, parish priest of Sinnai.
