ANTHONY ALFRED NUCCIO (priest)
BIRTH:
Lynn Mass. – October 15, 1931
FIRST PROFESSION:
1.07.1953
ORDINATION:
Rome – March 14, 1959
DEATH:
Pittsburg (Penns.) – February 13, 1987
AGE: 56
Having been baptised by the Stigmatine Fr Turri he grew with acquaintance of our confreres in Lynn. He was sent to our seminary in Waltham. In 1953 he went to Rome immediately after his first religious vows. He completed philosophy and theology at the Angelicum University. In 1959 he obtained the licentiate in theology, after his ordination in March of the same year. He was sent to Springfield where he stayed for four years, and then he went to Timmins in Canada (Ontario).
In 1976 he was elected general councillor. In 1982 he began to be seriously sick in connection with his heart. At Pittsburg in January 13, 1987, he received a heart transplant. He enjoyed a short spell of good health but after just a month he died.
