| CURIA GENERALIZIA MARIANISTI Rome, January 13, 2005 Death Notice No. 37 (To all Unit Administrations) The Province of Italy recommends to our fraternal prayers our dear Brother, ANGELO CARRIERO, priest, who died in the service of the Blessed Virgin Mary on December 29, 2004, at Rome, in the 81st year of his age and the 65th of his religious profession. Angelo Carriero was born at Riccia (Campobasso) on October 19, 1924. In 1936, he finished elementary school in his home town and then entered the Postulate at Pallanza. He began his Novitiate at Pallanza on October 20, 1939. The next year, at 16, he made his first profession on November 3, 1940. He made his perpetual profession at Pallanza on August 5, 1947, the Marian feast of Our Lady of Snows (Madonna della Neve), which commemorates the dedication of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. He spent the first years of religious life at Pallanza (1942 and following) during World War II. He knew the suffering linked to a period of captivity. Then he spent his life in the communities of Pallanza and Giove in Brusasco from 1952 to 1954; in Campobasso from 1954 to 1958 at the House of Orphans of War; in Rome from 1958 to 1962 at the Marianist parish, the Holy Name of Mary; and again in Campobasso from 1962 to 1974 at the Marianist parish, Mater Ecclesiae. In 1974, he began his missionary life in French Congo; from 1975 to 1979 he lived in Ivory Coast at Abidjan; from 1979 to 1990 in Ecuador at the mission of the Province of Italy in Latacunga with the parish, “Once de Noviembre, La Vitoria”. When he returned to Italy, he stayed from 1990 to 1995 in Milan at the formation house to attend theological studies that ended in his priestly ordination on April 1, 1995, at Campobasso at the age of 70. He realized a wish he had since he had choosen religious life. We can summarize the characteristics of our brother through the approach of his life: a great love of the poor, the neglected, the leprous, those who are not important in the eyes of many. To serve the poor with Mary to that extent, he added the name Maria to his name. He used to say, “The sick and the old are my favorite.” Fr. Angelo was able to infuse his friends with the missionary spirit everywhere in the world; he was able to realize, through his circular letters, a spiritual and affective link that made them feel missionary and as part of a whole family. We would like to remember the depth of his spirituality in a talk he made with Jesus: “Jesus, I thank you for your rich favours. I thank you for having introduced your Mother to me: I love her so much. Do you know, perhaps more than you! But she is happy and so all three of us are happy. And then, Jesus, I’m asking you with all my heart to please forgive me for all the evil I have done, and I did a lot!…And I make the intention of improving. I promise it to you always, with your holy help. Please bless me! I promise to lead a life suitable to you until the day we will meet in your Holy Kingdom. Amen!” Now Father Angelo has arrived in his Father’s home, in communion
with Jesus and Mary, and will not forget us. His prayer of intercession
will help all of us to realize our own vocation by answering God with
loving generosity.
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