Tomorrow at 10.30 am in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Flumini di Quartu , his church, the funeral of Don Gianni Paderi , who died on Sunday night at the age of 77 , after having fought for days against a cerebral hemorrhage that in the end he left no way out.

To greet him for the last time there will be his entire community , as he loved to call it. Those coastal residents who welcomed him on his arrival almost twenty years ago.

Since then he had been loved by everyone , he who was of an overwhelming sympathy, always ready to joke. The actor priest who acted in the parish company and who went to retirement homes to tell jokes to the elderly.

He liked to call himself the "marine priest" , "I have always been sent to the seaside, from Torre delle Stelle to Solanas and then here on the coast of Quartu" he said. "I was very lucky because I love water: I go to the pool three times a week and in the summer there is no lack of opportunities to take a dip in the sea. feet at Poetto ".

Certainly everyone will miss him, the parents of the many children he has seen grow up, the many children of the catechism school, young and old. Because Don Gianni was a rare person who was impossible not to love.