13 Facts About William Fulco

William Fulco entered the Society of Jesus in August 1954 and was ordained a priest in June 1966.

William Fulco had a brother, Dr Armand Fulco, and sister, Yvonne Henriks.

William Fulco later joined the Society of Jesus in 1954 and was ordained in 1966.

Father William Fulco was fluent in nine languages including English, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew, German.

William Fulco founded the school's Classics and Archaeology department within the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts.

William Fulco was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair of Ancient Mediterranean Studies.

William Fulco was the faculty advisor from 2002 to 2019, and was awarded by the national organization with the 2011 SigEp Citation, Volunteer of the Year, and Distinguished Alumnus awards.

William Fulco was hired to translate the dialogues for the film The Passion of the Christ, by Mel Gibson, into a hypothetical reconstructed form of Aramaic, the Aramaic that Jesus spoke, making him one of the few professional historical linguists specializing in the production of texts in unattested or poorly attested languages known to have existed, with a focus on the needs of the movie industry.

William Fulco's reconstructed Aramaic used in the film incorporated elements of the Biblical Aramaic of the Book of Daniel, fourth-century Syriac, and Hebrew.

William Fulco has worked on such films as The Nativity Story and Constantine.

William Fulco was public about his alcoholism from 1968 to 1985.

William Fulco was able to become sober via a Washington, DC, program.

William Fulco died November 29,2021, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 85.