San Marino. Presentation of the book “Don Giussani. An exciting life”
Thursday 1 December, at 21.15, at the Casa San Giuseppe in Valdragone, there will be the presentation of the book “IL GIUS-Don Giussani. An exciting life” by Carmen Giussani, written and published in the year of the centenary of the birth of the founder of Communion and Liberation (Desio, 15 October 1922).
The volume (Edizioni Baldini+Castoldi, 2022) collects the testimonies of those who frequented him from the mid-1950s to the beginning of the 2000s, sharing part of the journey with him. Through the words of the many who met him emerges the portrait of a man who lived and “proposed Christianity as an encounter, an event, a love story”. “Don Giussani was a father and teacher, he was a servant of all the anxieties and human situations that they encountered in his educational and missionary passion”. Thus Pope Francis in the audience granted to Communion and Liberation (Piazza San Pietro, 15 October 2022) summarized the personality traits of Don Giussani as a charismatic man, educator and son of the Church. The meeting will be attended by the poet Davide Rondoni, editor of the introductory note to the volume and for a long time collaborator of don Luigi Giussani and Carmen Giussani, author, journalist close for life to Gius, of whom she bears the same surname, as well as his translator in Spanish.