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Dec 10, 2020

VILLA Davide (Father)

Cabiate, 7 October 1932 - Erba, 3 November 2020 (Italy)

Father Davide VILLA scj

In the night of 2nd to 3rd November, Father Davide Villa scj died in the hospital of Erba (Italy, province of Como) where he had been hospitalized a few days before. He was a member of the Albavilla community, and he had just celebrated his 88th birthday.

Fr. Davide was born on October 7th 1932 in Cabiate, a town which he had left when he was young to study, first in the Betharramite school of Colico, then in the Albiate seminary.

After his ordination, celebrated on June 15th 1957 in Milano, Fr. Davide has always been in turn a preacher, in numerous parishes of the Brianza (a region of Lombardy) and around the Lake of Como (giving for a long time a pastoral help to various parishes), and teaching Italian and Latin in the Colico high-school, in the apostolic school of Albavilla and in the high-school of the diocesan seminary of Como. With his naturally distinguished deportment, his classical culture, and his gifts as a lecturer, Father Davide was for years the typical « superior ».

From 1965, he was in charge of the apostolic school of Albavilla (an experience which perhaps marked his life most) where he accompanied hundreds of seminarists, playing the role of the father who might appear a little rough and severe, but always precisely with a paternal feeling. He was also appointed several times master of the novices. As a Provin- cial Superior (from 1977 to 1984), he contributed to make the place of Italy recognized in the Congregation, guiding it in times which were not simple from an ecclesial point of view. His experience as a Vicar in the church of the Sacred Heart of Lissone from 1993 to 2004 was the last important step before he came back to his dear town of Albavilla.

The funeral of Fr. Davide was celebrated on Thursday November 5th in the parish church San Vittore of Albavilla. Now our brother rests in the cemetary of Cabiate.

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