VITTORIO VETTORI (priest)
Born: Piscine di Sover Trento 17.11.1910
Final profession: 9.9.1934
Ordained: 19.7.1937
Died: Verona 14.10.2010
Àge: 99.
On the 14th October 2010 Fr. Vittorio peacefully entered eternal life: he was belonging to the Community of S. Leonardo in Verona. His funeral will be celebrated on Monday, the 18th October 2010 at 10:30 at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Verona.
Fr. Vittorio was born at Piscine di Sover (province of Trento – Italy) on the 17th November 1910. Thus he nearly reached the age of 100. At the moment he was the eldest Confrere in the whole Congregation.
He entered the Congregation on the 7th September 1925 at Verona, where he completed his novitiate (1930). He professed his final vows at Genzano (province of Rome) on the 9th September1934 and was ordained a priest on the 19th July 1937. He had his philosophical and theological formation in Rome, where he got a Licentiate degree in Theology at the Pontifical University of Angelicum.
The apostolic activities, which he exercised through the years, are many and differentiated, carried on in different communities of his Province. We list just a few:
1940-1943: at Sezano (Verona) as a Prefect of the Aspirants and of the Temporary Professed;
1943-1945: at the Stimate as a rector of the church;
1945-1949 and 1968-1972: at Battipaglia (Salerno) as a Superior and Parish Assistant;
1949-1954 and 1964-1968: at St. Croce (Rome) as a Councillor and Parish Assistant.
And then at Poggiomarino, Parma, Pavia, Bellizzi, Trento.
These generally were short periods of residence (three or four years) and this shows his readiness and availability to respond to the needs of the Province according to the will of the Superiors.
As from 1985 he lived in the Community of San Leonardo to ‘prepare himself for a good death’, as he was often saying. And here he offered the best of his commitment and work for the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes as a confessor and sacristan, as a watchful sentinel in continuous prayer to Mary.
Notwithstanding his quite rude character (he was playfully called ‘Vittorio La-va-mal’ = it’s tough) he was an exemplary religious in his Stigmatine life.
As he was growing old, sickness took over his frail body, starting from the legs, and blocked him in bed for a long time.
We hoped we could celebrate with him his Centenary in November, but the Lord called him and prepared for him an eternal feast.
R.I.P.
