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Nadia De Munari, a 50-year-old Italian lay missionary who served the poor in Peru died on April 24 after being attacked by unknown people.
The incident happened at the “Mamma Mia” home, about 250 miles north of Lima, according to a local newspaper.
The home is run by Operation Mato Grosso.
The newspaper said “Mamma Mia” home offers “free food to minors and low income mothers as well as ongoing social services, so the brutal attack on the Italian missionary, very dear to our city, makes no sense.”
Italian Salesian priest Ugo De Censi was the founder of Operation Mato Grosso. The organization provides young people with skills to help the poor.
Fellow teachers told Diario de Chimbote that on April 20, they all went to bed at 9:30 p.m. They were to meet at 6.30am for prayer.De Munari was found unconscious in her room the following morning. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
De Munari was later transported to a Lima hospital, where she died.
Police said they were investigating the incident.
People in her home town of Schio in Italy received the news of her demise with sadness. Nadia's mother described her daughter as a “martyr”.
"These words could not be more true because Nadia has made a gift of her life, she has shed her blood," Fr. Gaetagno Santagiuliano, a parish priest of Schio, told the Italian media Adnkronos.