‘Mamma Ebe’, the saint of Carpineta, died at the age of 88

‘Mamma Ebe’ died at the age of 88 at the Infermi hospital in Rimini. It is about “one of the best known and most controversial characters in the judicial chronicles of the beginning of the century: Gigliola Giorgini, the saint of Carpineta” writes the ‘Corriere di Romagna’. The woman “died” yesterday due to the inextinguishable effects of a neoplasm. Today the funeral with the coffin which will depart from the Infermi hospital in Rimini. At 3 pm the parish priest of S. Ermete will celebrate the funeral rite. Then Mamma Ebe’s coffin will be transferred for burial to the monumental cemetery in Piazzale Umberto Bartolani. Born in Pian Del Want (Bo) in 1933, the Santona di Carpineta had earned this nickname as the top of the ‘Pious Union of Merciful Jesus’. Together with a large handful of followers who followed her, she received many “faithful” in her ability to heal through a mix of medicines, placebos and prayers and had established one of her operational bases in a manor house located on the slopes of the Cesena hamlet of Carpineta. “.” In January 2002 – the online edition of Corriere di Romagna reads – the stories of miraculous healings become complaints of victims who say they have received from the saint and her congregation useless medical care or that they have ruined their lives. And to have also paid a lot, over time, to ask Mamma Ebe for help “. In 2011 the Supreme Court confirmed” his final sentence to 6 years of imprisonment “. Mother’s story is over thirty years of trouble with justice Ebe, aka Gigliola Ebe Giorgini, the ‘holy woman of Carpineta’ ended up at the center of sensational arrests, trials, convictions and very heavy accusations, which also inspired a film by director Carlo Lizzani. Blessings, ‘exorcisms’, ointments to cure all kinds of evil: Ebe Giorgini, born in Bologna in 1934, ended up in the news in the early eighties, when inquiries were opened in various parts of Italy about her and her religious order, never recognized by the Church. group in the province of Vercelli, in the Pistoia area and in Rome, serious physical and mental abuses have been committed: goods and money have been extorted from the sick, in exchange for healings carried out with pseudo-religious rites. olta in April 1984: the arrest warrant speaks of conspiracy, fraud, kidnapping, abandonment of the sick and abusive exercise of the medical profession. Crimes committed in the dual role of saint and entrepreneur, at the head of a real financial empire. The religious order he founded, the “Pious Union of Merciful Jesus”, has never been recognized by the Church. In March 1987 she was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment for criminal association. Another arrest came in November 1988. Despite the convictions, the woman has never given up her activity as a healer. An activity that she would have exercised by administering herbal concoctions and psychotropic drugs to her patients and faithful and which cost her a sentence in the Supreme Court in 2011 for violation of anti-doping rules, following which “ Villa Gigliola ” was also confiscated. During the trial, Mamma Ebe has always defended herself by saying that she only imposed her hands and never gave indications on taking drugs, indeed she always advised everyone to contact doctors. According to what the police found, hundreds of people of all ages would turn to the ‘healer’, including parents who had their young children blessed over the phone, just to make them stop crying.