For ten years, the Franciscan has been waiting for power at least once to resume administering a religious function in public. His was the story of an innocent. Who paid a very high price: the public public and the suspension from the priestly exercise. Then the end of the nightmare but not of suffering. “I would like to say mass before dying, it is the thing I want most”
Father Fedele Bisceglia was 83 years old when, with his heart in his hand, he opened in this interview. He already had a lively life behind him. A life of joys (many) and of pain (intense). It was a Franciscan friar, the missionary doctor in Congo (and not only) made a reception center – the Franciscan Oasis ” – which was then removed. A center built without the use of public funds but with the exclusive voluntary contribution of hundreds of people.
Father Fedele has also always been the reference point for the football fans of Cosenza Calcio: he helped many boys ultrà and built with them beautiful pages of solidarity and non -violence. The friar lives in poverty, without money. “They are the poorest priest in the world” he explains “I receive a pension that gives entirely to the needy and I don’t have a penny aside”. The friar daily, in the morning, makes the tour to public establishments – the bars in particular – to collect everything that has not been consumed and distribute it to the poor. “My car” says “is always full and always empty: in the sense that I fill it in the morning of all food genres that give me and in a few hours I give them to those who do not have to eat”.
But Fedele Bisceglia has never been able to publicly celebrate Mass and collect the confessions of the faithful since he was accused of even raping a nun. An accusation proved totally without foundation and from which it was acquitted with a judgment on a final after a difficult judicial battle. He said of his accusator, “If I met her, I would embrace her. I forgiven him, just as I forgiven how many inside the church said serious things against me. I am a man of Christ and forgiveness. Everyone”.
Then the confession: “In my life I sin like all men but I trust in the mercy of God to whom I abandon myself”. Forgiveness and mercy, two strong words. «I would like to celebrate the Mass before dying. I miss too much and I really hope I can do it before leaving this land ». It didn’t happen.