Don Giuseppe Morosini, a young priest, collaborated very actively with the Resistance, saving carabinieri and Jews from deportation and procuring false documents and ration books. He was also active in obtaining information which, through the Clandestine Military Front, was then transmitted to the Allies.

Arrested by the Gestapo on 4 January 1944 after a tip-off, he was taken to Regina Coeli prison, interrogated repeatedly, tortured and sentenced to death. In prison Sandro Pertini, also an inmate, testified that he had seen him with his face swollen and dripping blood due to the torture suffered in the interrogation, but in his eyes a living light shone, the light of his faith. 
He was shot at Fort Bravetta on 3 April. Before the shooting he blessed the firing squad. 
His figure is remembered in the film “Roma città aperta” by Roberto Rossellini.