Raffaella Carrà, urn with ashes at the sanctuary of Padre Pio

The urn with the ashes of Raffaella Carra arrived at 11 yesterday, Saturday 4 September, a San Giovanni Rotondo (Foggia), for a last visit to San Pio wanted by the artist herself.

He brought it Sergio Japino, Raffaella's lifelong choreographer and director, appeared visibly moved. The director of Tele Radio Padre Pio, Stefano Campanella e Friar Francesco DiLeo, rector of Sanctuary of San Giovanni Rotondo.

“Listen to my silence”, said Japino immediately after the ceremony in which a plaque dedicated to Raffaella was discovered and placed in front of the Tele Padre Pio headquarters, which the show girl inaugurated.

"We want to say thanks to Raffaella for the great woman she was and that we got to know", said the director Campanella, recalling that "Raffaella in 2001 inaugurated the headquarters of this small station, since then she has always had a very strong bond with us ".

“We want to say thanks to Raffaella in a special way, thanks for her humanity and her friendship”, he added, discovering the memorial plaque.

Immediately after the stop at the television headquarters, the urn was taken to the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie where a funeral home was set up with a blow-up in the background with the show girl in the midst of the friars of San Giovanni Rotondo.

Many pilgrims lined up waiting for their turn to enter the church to greet them and pray in front of Raffaella Carrà's ashes. Among them also an excited Henry Beruschi, the comedian who met the Italian show girl during the inauguration of Teleradio Padre Pio. “He wanted to come back here - said the actor - not as a real presence in flesh and blood, but as a presence of heart”.

Photo: Bari.Repubblica.it.