Venerated August (Veneranda Augusta)

The largest petrochemical complex in Europe is located in Augusta, Sicily (Italy). Here, the death rate from cancer is over 30% and children are born deformed. Cancer death is an institutional crime as this industrial holocaust is ignored by the major media in the country and by the rulers, who pretend not to hear citizens desperate cry for help. Fr. Palmiro Prisutto, Augusta’s main priest, does not give up and seeks justice incentivizing the whole community to report to the authorities what is happening while waiting for an official institutional response and concrete actions that will strengthen the health system.