ITALY. Seriate. April 17, 2020. Don Marcello Crotti e Don Mario blessing coffins at ST. Joseph curch. Because of the coronavirus outbreak, clusters of coffins arrive every day and are laid on the cold marble floor of St. Joseph’s Church.
“Authorities didn’t know where to put the coffins,” said Carminati, 64, the senior priest in Seriate, a tranquil, middle-class riverside town of 25,000 people in northern Italy.