(Tiper Stock Exchange) – Choirs and applause as Silvio Berlusconi’s coffin comes out in Piazza Duomo at the end of the funeral ceremony in the cathedral. The crowd cheered ‘One president, there is only one president’ And ‘Silvio, Silvio’. At the end of the function, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, greeted the family of the former Premier, outside the Milan Cathedral. A greeting and a hug toalso from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who kissed his children and his partner Martha Fascina.
“Silvio Berlusconi was certainly a politician, he was certainly a businessman, he was certainly a figure in the limelight of notoriety. But in this moment of farewell and prayer, what can we say about Silvio Berlusconi? It was a man: a desire for life, a desire for love, a desire for joy. And now we celebrate the mystery of fulfillment. Here’s what I can say about Silvio Berlusconi. He’s a man and now he’s meeting God”. Monsignor the archbishop of Milan said so Mario Delpini nethe homily given in the cathedral on the occasion of the state funeral. Visibly the five children, Piersilvio and Marina, born from the first marriage, and Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi born from the second marriage.
Present, among others, the President of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana and that of the Senate Ignazio La Russa. Also at the mass were the local authorities, the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana and the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala. All took their places in the left aisle.
Among the others in the front rows, the former Prime Ministers Mario Draghi and Mario Monti, the European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, the leader of the Third Pole Matteo Renzi. And again, his football partner Adriano Galliani and party friends, including the current Minister Antonio Tajani.
Berlusconi’s coffin then returned to Villa San Martino in Arcore. The former prime minister will then be cremated in the Panta Rei crematorium in Valenza Po, as was the case for his parents, Rosa and Luigi, and their sister Maria Antonietta whose urns are now kept in the chapel of Villa San Martino.
“Thank you Silvio. We will not forget you”, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrote on social media shortly after the state funeral of the founder of Forza Italia. “We will make you proud”, reads a video that accompanies the post, in which some moments in the life of the Knight are retraced, from the speech of his descent into the field, which ends with the image of the large tricolor used in a demonstration of FdI: “We started on this journey many years ago. We have traveled different paths. But the goal was, is and will remain the same. To make Italy proud and able to amaze the world. Thank you Silvio. We will make you proud”.