At age 97, Sister Alberta dies, a relentless fighter



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By Brazil de Fato

"If I could go back, I would live again and fight with the landless, life with them sums up my mission life a little bit," said Sister Alberta in an interview with 2016 to the Christian family. The story of Sister Alberta Girardi, who died at dawn on Sunday (30), is marked by resistance and struggle. He was born in the Italian city of Mestre in Venice in 1921, a year before the rise of fascism in that country. His father was a declared anti-fascist and was persecuted by the Benito Mussolini regime. During the Second World War, the house where he lived with his mother and sister was bombed, leaving part of it entirely in ashes

In 1943, he entered a convent in Venice to work in an orphanage. In 1951, Sister Alberta was sent to Rome where she created, at the suggestion of the Jesuit priest and director of photography Enrico Baragli, a professional film school for young orphans, the Italian Film Training Center. During her 19 years at the helm of the center, Sister Alberta ran the chains of Italy in search of girls of prisoners, to whom she could entrust the studies.

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