One day, perhaps not so far away, even religion teachers will know "which saint to turn to", because one of them has happily landed in the afterlife and is currently "on trial" to verify if he really is worthy of the glory of the altars. Even if the voice of the people has already promoted it with full marks and the only thing missing is the judgment of the Church to ratify its sanctity. Provided, of course, that one does not claim to find, in the folds of his thirty years, striking actions and prodigious phenomena, almost as if the sanctity of a person depended on them.
In fact, everything is simple and linear in the life of Bruno Comolli, who was born in Landiona (province of Novara, but diocese of Vercellli) in 1948, the only son of an "exceptional mother: spiritually strong, materially suffering". She will be his guide, his confidant, his first true educator.
He studied in Novara with the Salesians, attending the scientific high school and graduating in 1968: he proved to be a student full of good will, but not particularly brilliant. Because of brilliant in him there is only an exceptional goodness, an irrepressible joy and a contagious cheerfulness: which is certainly not a little, especially if, as in Bruno's life, it is inserted in the context of a lively and robust faith, inherited by the parents and cultivated by the Salesians.
Then, at the age of 18, he met an exceptional priest, the new parish priest of Landiona, who dedicated a lot of time to young people and launched them into a strong experience of Catholic Action. In a short time, the young people of the time testify today, a state of "spiritual well-being" is recorded in the parish and, especially young people, they have the sensation that truly "holiness is close at hand".
The spearhead of the parish rejuvenation is precisely Bruno, who in 1969 assumes the presidency of the CA of Landiona and, in the following years, also becomes diocesan director of the ACR.
In 1973 he graduated in Political Science at the Cattolica in Milan, where once again he did not deny himself, reporting only a discreet vote and clearly giving the impression of wanting to graduate quickly, to dive into work.
In fact, Bruno was specializing in other fields in those years, starting with the AC school camps, where Bruno transfers all the enthusiasm of his faith joyfully lived and courageously witnessed. His concern, which is then identical to that of today's animators, is to be able to help, especially the very young, "to keep the fruit of the summer camps" once everyone has returned to their own parish reality.
"Only by placing ourselves at the service of these young people, only by speaking to them about Jesus and in turn keeping ourselves as an example for them": this is the conclusion reached by Bruno, working on his knees in an ever more intimate conversation with his God. friends agree in reporting that this is not a proclamation, but a reality that Bruno tries to live in his every day commitment.
In 1974, a choice that was perfectly in line with his passion as an educator: he asked and obtained to teach Religion in state schools. The Catechetical Office of Milan entrusted him with the most "terrible" school, the one that no one wants, because there are still protesting queues and anticlerical outbursts.
In fact, they welcome him with arrogance, indifference and suspicion: he conquers them one by one with his firmness and above all with his love. He calls each of them by name, knows their stories, shares their problems and when he can helps them: a professor like this, first makes himself listened to (in fact, it is no longer difficult to fly a fly in the classroom), then he makes himself loved. They say they love him for his coherence, they listen to him willingly because he is authentic.
On the evening of February 14, 1978, while returning home from school, he was run over on a pedestrian crossing and died the following day in hospital. At the funeral, boys and colleagues mourn him like one of the family.
«Bruno did not say Lord, Lord every moment, but his fullness of life and joy, always transparent (they said) that the reason for his existence was Him, was day after day Announcement and Mission for everyone. What struck me right away was that Bruno had a strong tension: that of making his judgment on things the judgment of God », wrote one of his pupils.
The diocese of Vercelli, having obtained the transfer of the competence of the ecclesiastical court (since Bruno died in the diocese of Milan) and the nihil obstat from the Holy See, which bears the date of 26 June 2010, followed the diocesan phase of its cause for beatification, opened on 15 February 2015 (37th anniversary of his death) and concluded on 5 March 2017.

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