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Policeman becomes a priest and hermit thanks to Eucharistic adoration

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Don Ernesto: da poliziotto a sacerdote - Tv2000it
Silvia Lucchetti - published on 03/08/22
"I was an inflexible policeman, then Mercy arrived ..."

Fr. Ernesto Piraino is a former policeman from Calabria, Italy; now he’s a priest and hermit in the town of Belvedere Marittimo, near the point of the “boot” of the Italian peninsula. His hermitage is a small house with a vegetable garden at an altitude of 2,300 feet, an isolated dwelling in the woods of Pollino from which you can see the clear sea that washes the Tyrrhenian coast.

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