The prayer that Maurizio Costanzo made to his best friend before he died

Today we will tell you about the surprising request that Maurizio Costanzo he said to his best friend before he died.

The lawyer George Assumma, a friend of Constantius and former Siae president was one of the last people to see him before he died. Assumma met Maurizio in 1973 and has been a great friend and fan of her TV shows ever since.

United friends for nearly half a century, they shared telephone calls, lunches together every Monday and Wednesday e coffee consumed at Vanni, a meeting point in front of the Rai headquarters, where opinions and judgments on new projects were exchanged. In 50 years, never a quarrel, a misunderstanding or a disagreement has marked this important bond.

The last day they felt was a Thursday morning, when Costanzo had him called from Paideia clinic, where he had been hospitalized for 2 weeks for a minor operation. Unfortunately some complications including bronchopneumonia, led him to death.

Maurizio had survived the surgery well, he was in an excellent mood and on the phone with his friend he joked, talked about work and waited for the following week to go home. Unfortunately, however, fate had something else in store for him.

The last meeting between Assumma and Maurizio Costanzo

Assumma went to see him 4 days before his death and on that occasion Maurizio, despite an openly non-believer, would have asked him to recite the Ave Maria with him. After reciting the prayer Maurizio asked Giorgio how he saw thebeyond, if he could do television there too and if he would have embraced his father again. Then she promised him that if he went to heaven he would wait for him to hug him again.

This is the last picture that sees the two friends together and as in a ritratto suspended in time, the appointment in a better and new world, made of light and hope, where they will be able to embrace each other and never leave each other again.

This scene brings to mind a beautiful meditation by Charles Peguy on the Marian prayer par excellence.