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I have just read in the Vatican Information Service bulletin of the death of Bishop Jose Mauro Pereira Bastos C.P., Bishop of Guaxupe, Brazil. He and three other people were killed in a car accident last Thursday, 14 September, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Bishop Mauro and I studied together at the Gregorian in Rome. He was a lovely person, always cheerful and full of fun. He was also a very prayerful person who spent hours in silence before the Blessed Sacrament. He told me that he was fascinated by the monastic life, but his own life seemed to move in another direction when he was made a bishop six years ago at the age of forty-five. I met him in Rome about two years ago; he was still the same uncomplicated and holy man. Now he is called from this life to share the glory of his crucified and risen Lord. May he rest in peace.

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