On 9 May Rosario Livatino will be Blessed

On February 5, 2021, in the "John Paul II" room of the Archbishop's Palace, the archbishop, card. Francesco Montenegro and the coadjutor archbishop, Msgr. Alessandro Damiano announced the date of the beatification of Judge Rosario Angelo Livatino, an Italian magistrate, murdered by the Stidda.
The celebration will be held in the Cathedral Basilica of Agrigento on Sunday 9 May 2021, anniversary of the visit of St. John Paul II to the City of Temples. 

Livatino was murdered on the road that leads from Canicattì to Agrigento on 21 September 1990, at the age of 37, by the Mafiosi della Stidda. Di Livatino, born in Canicattì on 3 October 1952, the Holy See recognized martyrdom "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith): this is the content of a decree of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, of which Pope Francis authorized the promulgation during an audience with the cardinal prefect Marcello Semeraro.

The proof of the martyrdom "in odium fidei" of the young Sicilian judge, according to sources close to the cause, came also thanks to the declarations made by one of the four instigators of the murder, who testified during the second phase of the beatification process (opened on 21 September 2011 and carried out as postulator by the archbishop of Catanzaro, Monsignor Vincenzo Bertolone, from Agrigento), and thanks to which it emerged that whoever ordered that crime knew how upright, just and attached to the faith was Livatino and that for this reason, he could have been an interlocutor of crime: he had to be killed.