Sister Mary Cecilia Giannitti, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 72 years, died March 23 at Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood.
Sister Mary Cecilia Giannitti, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 72 years, died March 23 at Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood.
Sister Mary Frances Cervone, P.V.M.I., the longest living member of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate, died April 13 in Monroe, N.Y. She was 102.
A memorial Mass for Maria Waligorska, the mother of Father Wojciech Waligorsk
Sister Mary Regina, R.G.S., (Janice Genevieve Ahearn), a Good Shepherd Sister for 74 years, died April 8 at St. Patrick’s Manor in Framingham, Mass., after a long illness. She was 97.
A Mass of Christian Burial for Father Joseph Pasciuto was to be celebrated April 15 at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn.
Father Carmen La Mazza, M.M., who was born in Jersey City, N.J., and raised in Brooklyn, died March 24 in El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif.
Sister Marie Lucy Sullivan, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 68 years, died March 23 in her Hempstead, L.I.
Sister Antoinette Damato, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, L.I., for 70 years, died April 5.
In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed were known as “martyr-confessors.”
Cardinal Georges Cottier, O.P., former theologian of the papal household, died March 31 at the age of 93.