10 Facts About Angelo Buccarello

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Angelo Buccarello, OSST was born on 12 May 1942 and is an Italian Catholic priest and member of the Trinitarians known for his founding of the Catholic Chaplaincy for Prisons.

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Angelo Buccarello entered the noviciate in 1959 and then pursued his studies: senior secondary school in Livorno, Italy, philosophy at the College of St Crisogonus in Rome, and theology at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome.

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Angelo Buccarello was ordained to the priesthood on 28 June 1968.

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Angelo Buccarello was named Catholic Chaplain for the Prisons of Madagascar.

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Angelo Buccarello has worked in the prison domain with the ACP until his departure from Madagascar in 2001.

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Angelo Buccarello opened centres for children of detainees in Amboditsiry, Andranobevava, Analamahitsy, Fenomanana, Anjiro, as well as for the most undernourished detainees of Androndra.

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Angelo Buccarello was later named President of the Trinitarian International Solidarity, an organism with the aim of liberation.

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8.

Angelo Buccarello received the prize for Human Rights from the French President, Jacques Chirac.

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Angelo Buccarello was named member of the Commission Nationale Malgache for Human Rights, and was decorated Knight and Officer of the Ordre National Malgache.

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Angelo Buccarello's great exploit: Madagascar was the only country in the world which, on the occasion of the Jubilee Year 2000, year of reconciliation and of debt remission, freed some 3000 prisoners, as a gesture of clemency, thanks to the faith and tenacity of Fr.