Br. Pietro Rusconi’s narrative from Chad.

"We say, in our Congregation, that we must reach holiness through service. Well, I’m approaching the age of 80, and I’m pretty sure: I still need a few dozen years to reach that goal...".This is the unusual story of a Lombard religious - Brother Pietro Rusconi - who has been working in Chad for 40 years in a silence, broken only by the noise of the garage he always sets up, wherever he is. A “sui generis” missionary, whose desk is fuller of bolts than of books, of technical drawings rather than of theological works. A bit rough, our "Ruscun"; yet, he has restored dignity to disabled children who were dragging themselves along the streets, he repairs agricultural equipment, he helps women to free themselves from the continuous need of collecting wood, by providing them with "improved cookers" to save energy and defend the environment from desertification. In recent years he has been working in the Diocese of Mongo together with Fr. Franco Martellozzo.

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