Messina, the last farewell to Giovanni Arigò. Father Pelleriti “With us in heaven every time we see festive lights shining”

“From today, every time we look up at the sky to admire the play of light on festive evenings, we will know that Giovanni will be there to delight us with his art”: this is how he wanted to remember John Arigo Father Giovanni Pelleriti during the funeral rite presided over today in the Church of S. Maria della Consolazione in Villaggio Santo. To give the last farewell to the owner of the fireworks factory that exploded on July 5thin which Giovanni’s mother, Giusy Costa, was also injured. She is still hospitalized at the Centro Grandi Sitionati in Palermo, and his sister Cristina, who was present today with the victim’s wife and other family members to say a final farewell to the man who, with his art, embellished the patronal festivals of Messina and beyond. At the mass, concelebrated by many priests who had built a relationship of great friendship and brotherhood with Giovanni over the years, the Mayor was also present Federico Basile and the friends of the Diocesan Civil Protection Unit in which Arigò had served as a volunteer for years and the Vara and Giants Historical Group who proposed to the municipal administration to dedicate the 2024 edition of the Vara procession to him on August 15th. Giovanni Arigò died due to burns on 90% of his body; he had been transferred to the Major Burns Center in Genoa, Villa Scassi, where he died on July 15th after nine days of agony.