Friends on the streets
The liturgy in memory of Modesta
The iniziatives
TORNA A:
Memory
of those who live and die on the road
Twenty years ago died in Rome Modesta Valenti, because nobody had wanted
to help her.
The initiatives to remember her and to avoid that this ever happens again
in the future
It
was January 31st 1983. That morning, in the Termini Station in Rome, a
homeless woman, visibly suffering, didn't receive any aid for 4 long hours
because she was too dirty. She died before arriving at a hospital. Modesta
Valenti was 71 years old. A difficult life had brought her from Friuli to
Rome.
From then on, every year the Community of Sant'Egidio has remembered
Modesta, and with her all those who live and too often die in the street.
A "virtual road" has been entitled to her: it offers a registry
address to the homeless. This year, in the occasion of the twentieth year
since her death, some initiatives are scheduled to remember her:
Dedication of a sculpture at Termini Stationedicazione di una scultura alla Stazione Termini
31st
January, 11.30 a.m. at the Bookshop of rail 24 has been unveiled a statue
by the artist Ottavio Sgubin and has been inaugurated an exhibition of
paintings dedicated to the homeless people.
The event is organized by the Community of Sant'Egidio in collaboration
with the Municipality of Rome, Italian Railways Association, Great
Stations Associations
Liturgy in Santa Maria in Trastevere
On
2nd February, 12.00 a.m., in memory of Modesta and of all those
people who have died this year on the streets a liturgy has been
celebrated inteh roma basilica of st.Maria in Trastevere.
"VIA MODESTA VALENTI, UNA STRADA PER VIVERE": A Congress on the anagraphic residence
Rome, 14th February, 9.30 a.m. at the Eurostar Hall in Termini Station.
Press Review
La
Repubblica: Mille clochard con S.Egidio per ricordare Modesta
Archive
La Repubblica: Un indirizzo virtuale sui documenti dei barboni
Comune di Roma: Roma ha una nuova strada: Via Modesta Valenti
La delibera della Giunta Comunale
a cura di
Francesca Zuccari