On May 11, 2015, Father Sergio Katuranich died in Gallarate, at the age of 92, a Jesuit priest, from Rijeka, proud of his fiumanity, about which he wrote several books, one of which "Fragments of Rijeka life" happened to be read in these days. On May 14 he would have had his funeral. I take this opportunity to remind you of this. Unfortunately, I was only able to be with him one evening, for dinner, the time he came to Rome, to the Villaggio Giuliano, and with Luca Muscardin, of whose father Luciano, the great dermatologist Father Katuranich was a close friend since we were boys, and Marino Micich we went to eat at the Nuraghe. We talked a lot. Father Katuranich was the founder of the Jewish Christian Ecumenical Group, a very active study and documentation center for interreligious dialogue. I remember telling him that I was interested in Judaism and asking him for advice on books to read. I had mystery books in mind. Instead he cut it short. Start with the Bible, he told me. I haven't seen him since. But the other night, I don't know what driven by it, I went looking in my library for his books that I had not yet read. I find "Fragments of Rijeka Life", his autobiography, extraordinary, which I begin to read with increasing interest, rich as it is in experiences that will lead him to God after a long journey of rapprochement that had also contemplated Marxism and communist militancy, which he abjured when he came "to know too many things that offended me about the methods of the communists to convey people under their banners". It will be necessary for the people of Rijeka to do something to remember him.

Diego Zandel