Alex Ferrari and Luca
Bortolaso, the young gay student couple from Vicenza killed by
carbon-monoxide fumes at Ferrara di Monte Baldo near Verona on
Tuesday, are to have a joint funeral, it was decided on
Thursday.
The rite will take place in the church of San Giovanni
Battista in Arzignano near Vicenza on Friday at 2.30 pm local
time.
The funeral will be celebrated by the men's respective parish
priests.
The diocese said Thursday the joint funeral "meets a precise
desire of the two families to which the Church in this moment of
immense pain wants to be close with the words of faith.
"faced with the death of two young people, all other comments
appear inopportune, at the least".
Ferrari and Bortolaso, 21, died after inhaling fumes from a
defective wood-burning brazier.
Two young women who were with them were not affected because
they were sleeping in a different room, heated by an electric
fire.
The incident took place in a holiday home.
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