February 2nd

 

 

GIUSEPPE FINETTO (priest)

 

BIRTH:

27.05.1881

FIRST PROFESSION:

2.08.1923

ORDINATION:

Belluno – 1907

DEATH:

Casa Branca (S.P.) – 2.02.1945

AGE: 64

 

He entered the congregation at the age of 15, and he withdrew during the novitiate.  After his priestly ordination and fifteen years of ministry in the diocese of Vicenza, he obtained to be received again into the congregation. Having completed the novitiate and made his Profession he was sent to Ortonovo, where he lived for two years.

In 1925 he was sent to Brazil, and became Superior and parish priest of Tibagy (Paranà).  In Rio Claro he taught our students for many years. He exercised the priestly ministry in many communities.

He spent his last years in Casa Branca where he died of paralysis.

 

 

 

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