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Rome, November 12, 2004

Death Notice No. 31 (To all Unit Administrations)

The Province of Zaragoza recommends to our fraternal prayers our dear Brother, MAURO CURIEL ACERO, who died in the service of the Blessed Virgin Mary on November 6, 2004, in Barcelona, Spain, in the 80th year of his age and the 63rd year of his religious profession.

Mauro Curiel Acero was born on January 15, 1925 in Villanueva de Puerta (Burgos), the son of Lorenzo and Agustina. On September 30, 1938 he went to the Postulate in Escoriaza. He began his novitiate in Elorrio (Vizcaya) on September 11, 1941 and made his first profession in the same place on September 12, 1942. After his profession he went to Segovia to begin his studies in the scholasticate, and then went to Carabanchel Alto (Madrid) where he continued as a scholastic during 1943 and 1944.

The chronology of his life can be summed up in the following way:

- in 1945 and 1946 he was at Our Lady of the Pillar school in Madrid.
- in 1947 he enrolled to fulfill his military service and was sent to Tetuán, Africa.
- from 1949 to 1952 he was at Santa María school in Vitoria. During that time, on August 15, 1948 he made his perpetual profession in Escoriaza.
- in 1952 he taught at different places in the French Congo.
- in September of 1953 he was changed to Santa María in Vitoria where he stayed until 1957.
- from 1957 to 1965 he was at Santa María Catholic School in San Sebastián.
- in 1965 he moved to Madrid to work in the bookstore of the S.M. Press and was there until 1969.
- from 1969 to 1975 he was stationed at Our Lady of the Pillar school in Logroño.
- he spent the years 1975 to 1977 studying in Fribourg, Switzerland.
- after leaving Fribourg he was at the publishing house in Madrid until 1978
- from that year to 1982 he helped out at the Novitiate in Zaragoza.
- in 1982 he went to the parish of St. Christopher in Barcelona where he remained until he died in the service of the Blessed Virgin on November 6, 2004.

Mauro was a man with a great interest in culture and a tireless worker. One of his out-standing characteristics was the gratitude he felt toward everyone around him. He sought out personal relationships and gave himself to everything with his whole heart. In the parish of St. Christopher he worked principally at animating the liturgy, especially with the singing.

From the time he learned of the cancer which caused his death, he lived his illness with a real spirit of faith and was constantly thanking his Brothers in the community for the dedicated care he was given during this time.

May the Lord and our mother, the Virgin of the Pillar, receive him and may he rest in peace.