A Man for Others: The Life of Father Roberto Balducelli - Trailer.
ninajuliano on Jan 11, 2015 Rev. Roberto Balducelli, OSFS
August 10, 1913 – August 9, 2013
Father Roberto Balducelli, OSFS, a priest with the Oblate of St. Francis de Sales for 77 years as a priest, died on August 9–just 100 minutes shy of his 100th birthday–at the retirement center of his religious community in Childs, Maryland.
A Wilmington, Delaware legend, Father Roberto was born in Costeluccio (Bologna), Italy, on August 10, 1913. He graduated from Collegio Murialdo in Albano in 1928, after which he entered the Rome Minor Seminary and the Oblate Novitiate in Marin. In 1930, he was professed and became a student at Propaganda Fide University in Rome, followed by three years at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland where he received his education in philosophy and theology, along with a major in art. He was ordained to the priesthood on July 12, 1936, in Fribourg, Switzerland at St. Peter Canisius Church. The …More