«He was a worker who knew the value of concrete things, serious and modern, in his original way of being "young", but young enough that it was necessary to kill him to discourage the attempt to give a Christian response throughout a whole Province to the questions of justice and peace. He realized a profound truth: that for those who are Christians, it is natural to realize that it is not he who created his own life; he was born in a certain time, in a certain condition, not because he lives for him alone; that living for oneself life and wealth have no value. He played his role in this sense: get to the root of the problem, shake the foundations, round off the corners. The two hardest corners were: the agrarian resistance and the deafness of the laborer class to any hope of a Christian restoration. Hard were his encounters with some; the clash with the others brought him martyrdom. (...)».

Giuseppe Fanin

Pope Leo XIV – General Audience, November 5, 2025