MERLO Pedro Waldomiro (Brother) - Brazil
Cajuru (Brazil), 28 June 1934 - Sao Paolo (Brazil), 3 December 2014
Fr Pedro Waldomiro Merlo, 1934-2014, was born in Santa Rosa di Viterbo, a small town with a population of just over 20,000, in the state of Sao Paulo (Brazil).
A discrete man, we know very little of his childhood or youth. He usually attended the Parish of “Bel Ramo” in Sao Paulo, where he built a trusting friendship with Fr Enrique Lasuén, who was living there at that time. After getting to know him better, Fr Enrique invited him to live in the presbytery, where he was able to offer small services as an assistant. Gradually, he joined in the life of the congregation, so much so that in 1993 he became a novice.
As a consecrated brother, he always lived discretely and undertook the most humble services in the communities of Paulinia, Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo.
He nurtured a particular devotion for Our Lady of Conception of Aparecida, whom he would lovingly call “My little mummy.”
On December 3, on St. Francis Xavier’s feast day, died at noon Br. Pedro Waldomiro Merlo SCJ, of the community of Vila Matilde, Sao Paulo (Brazil). He returned to the Lord after a few weeks spent at the hospital.
May our Lady of Betharram, St. Michael Garicoits and the Venerable Fr. Auguste Etchecopar receive him in his eternal home.
Br Pedro, you were an unassuming man, the joy of our communities, always smiling wherever you would go…
Mauro Henrique Ulrich de Oliveira scj
Regional Vicar
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