Tabellini was parish priest Don Giuseppe Vidiciatico in Bologna, a country that on September 27, 1944 was invaded by the Germans in retreat after the breaking of the Gothic line and after have murdered in the village of Berne House 27 civilians in response to a partisan attack. The pastor, wanting at all costs save the lives of his countrymen, he began to negotiate with the Germans and succeeded, after long and painful negotiations, to tear their promise to spare the population in exchange for a commitment to abide by the partisans the retreat of the fleeing soldiers. And so it happened. But the local partisans, Communists, did not forgive the initiative of the priest, who, at the end of the war, was kidnapped, beaten and stripped naked in front of the people of Vidiciatico who revere him as a pastor for over twenty years. Poor Don Giuseppe unable to bear the insult and died shortly afterwards ...
