• Edoardo Santini won Il Bello d’Italia in 2019, named Italy’s most handsome man
• He said he wanted to become an actor before discovering the priesthood
A man once voted the most handsome in Italy has quit his modelling job to join the priesthood.
Edoardo Santini, 21, was voted Italy’s most beautiful man in 2019, when he was 17, in a pageant organised by ABE, a fashion group.
But after a lifetime of studying drama and dance to achieve his dream of becoming a star, he said on social media Saturday he would renounce his career for his faith.
‘At 21 years of age I find myself on the path towards becoming a priest, God willing,’ Edoardo said, claiming to have joined a seminary near Florence.
‘I’ve decided to give up modelling work, acting and dance, but I won’t abandon all my passions, I’ll just live them differently, offering them up to God,’ said the Castel Fiorentino native.
Speaking to his followers on social media, the rising star explained: ‘At 21 years old my father took the decision to marry my mother because she was pregnant and my mum, at 21, became a mother.
‘Me, at 21-years-old, I find myself taking the path to become, God willing, a priest. In these past years I’ve been able to meet people who have shown me what it means to be ‘church’.
‘They have given me the strength to investigate this question that I’ve taken with me from childhood but various fears stopped me from studying it at a deeper level. Last year, I took the first step,’ he said.
Edoardo said he went to live with two priests, the ‘best experience of my life’.
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12822619/Italys-handsome-man-quits-modelling-priest.html
