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In an interview with the Catholic Herald, Ania Golędzinowska, a model and tv presenter and the girlfriend of Paolo Enrico Beretta, the nephew of the Italian prime minister, reveals why she has moved to Medjugorje to lead a prayerful life.
She explained that she had been invited there by a friend who had paid for the trip. She noted, “I had a sort of an allergy for priests and the Church,” but the trip so changed her life that, “for the following two years I was no longer able to live serenely, because I realised that I had never been really happy in my entire life. What I was living was an illusion, not true happiness. I became depressed. I had a privileged life that I no longer liked. Instead, I wanted simple, normal things. One morning I woke up, called a friend and asked him to find me a place to stay in Medjugorje – or I would have jumped out of the window.”
Though Golędzinowska had been due to start a PR job at the billionaire Flavio Briatore’s club in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, the day she was due to start clashed with the 30th anniversary of the apparitions of Medjugorje. “After five days here I terminated the contract and have decided to remain. I am in a Marian community and I live with priests and nuns.”
Her routine couldn’t be further from the life that she could have been leading. “I wake up at five in the morning. We climb the mountain Podbrdo to recite a rosary, then we go down, we have prayers, then Holy Mass. Until noon we work. I clean the rooms and bathrooms, then I do the ironing, or peel potatoes. We also have a vegetable garden and chickens. After that we recite another rosary. In the afternoon we rest, then at six there are other prayers”
No longer the wearer of latest fashion, Golędzinowska contents herself with dressing in “clothes of Providence”, which pilgrims leaved behind.
“I could not come here wearing Chanel shoes…”, she said.
Read the full interview: Catholic Herald
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