SERIATE, Italy (Reuters) – When he ended up being a priest 40 years earlier, Dad Mario Carminati knew he would be handling death – however not on an industrial scale.
Caskets bearing deceased parishioners no longer leave one at a time in a glossy hearse after a funeral weekly approximately.
Now, since of the coronavirus outbreak, clusters of caskets get here every day and are laid on the cold marble floor of St. Joseph’s Church.
” Authorities didn’t understand where to put the coffins,” stated Carminati, 64, the senior priest in Seriate, a tranquil, middle-class riverside town of 25,000 people in northern Ita