An undated photo obtained from Italian news agency Ansa shows Italian judge Rosario Livatino. - Judge Rosario Livatino was 38 years old when he was murdered by Mafia killers in Sicily on September 21, 1990.
On May 9, 2021 he will be beatified during ROME - A magistrate slain by mobsters in Sicily and praised by two popes has been beatified by the Roman Catholic church on Sunday in the last formal step before possible sainthood.Rosario Livatino was gunned down on a Sicilian highway outside Agrigento as he drove to work in 1990.
Three years later, during a pilgrimage to Sicily, Pope John Paul II hailed him a "martyr of justice and, indirectly, of the Christian faith."Livatino was beatified in a ceremony in a cathedral in Agrigento.