GIUSEPPE COSTA (priest)
BORN: Feldkirch, Vorarlberg (Austria) – 27.1.1895
ORDAINED: Rome - 1919
DIED: Yarmouth, MA – 9.8.1977
AGE: 83
He served firstly at S. Croce in Rome as an Assistant parish Priest. In 1922 he left for the USA and for a few years he worked in our houses of formation. Then he was assigned to parish work. He was also appointred superior. During the Second World War he was a chaplain for the American Army.
He showed a strict but warm character, gentle and peaceful. During the last years of his life he was forced to inactivity due to health problems. He suffered a lot because of this handicap, but he was able to accept it and to bear it with serenity.
