10 Facts About Mario Borrelli

Mario Borrelli was a Neapolitan priest, sociologist and educationist.

Mario Borrelli, The continuing story from Morris West, Children of the sun, Fontana Books Ltd, 1983.

Mario Borrelli returned to education aged 12 when he was accepted at the Apostolic School, with support of Father Nobilione, a priest who attended the barber shop where he used to work, who paed the school fees for the first year.

Mario Borrelli converted the boot of the car into an altar for Mass and a puppet theatre to teach catechism to the children.

Father Borrelli realised that the apparent delinquency was driven out of desperate need.

Mario Borrelli obtained permission by this superiors to dress like a street urchin and, at night, mingled with them, sharing their life and misadventures in the street for four months.

In 1957, Children of the Sun, the biographic novel of Father Mario Borrelli's undertakings written by Morris West, increased his popularity in the Anglophile.

Mario Borrelli decides to live in the Neapolitan slums, together with the Little Sisters of Charles de Foucauld, at the core of a network of voluntary groups of Christian origin that look at the Second Vatican Council as a spiritual and civil source and inspiration.

Mario Borrelli made the decision to leave priesthood as his personal, moral and political, views are incompatible with those of the Neapolitan Christian church.

Mario Borrelli remained a member of the Congregation of San Filippo Neri and subsequently married.