Rev. Daniel J. Renaldo, C.M., 83, a resident of St. Catherine's Infirmary, Philadelphia, formerly of Roseto, died Feb. 9 in Chestnuthill Hospital, Philadelphia.
He took his vows in St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral in Philadelphia, and was ordained by Bishop J. Carroll McCormick. He trained for the priesthood at St. Joseph's College and Preparatory Seminary in Princeton, N.J. and at Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton. He served 53 years in the priesthood of the Congregation of the Mission with the Vincentian Fathers based in Philadelphia.
His first assignment was at St. Mary's Mission in the Panama Canal Zone and he spent six years there working mostly with West Indian natives. In 1954, he returned to the Germantown section of Philadelphia for two years and then returned to Panama two years later. During his second Panama assignment, he served as chaplain of a leper colony near the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
In 1961, he returned to the United States to teach for four years at St. John's Preparatory Seminary in Brooklyn and two years at Niagara University in New York. He then worked at an inner-city Baltimore parish for four years and took a third tour of duty in Panama. Upon his return in 1976, he traveled all over the United States for preaching engagements arranged through the Vincentian Fathers. He made the rectory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Roseto, his home base.
Born in Roseto, he was a son of the late Michael and Giovina (Curcio) Renaldo.
Survivors: Sisters, Anna Greco and Carmel, both of Roseto; nieces, nephews.
Rev. Daniel J. Renaldo, C.M., 83, a resident of St. Catherine's Infirmary, Philadelphia, formerly of Roseto, died Feb. 9 in Chestnuthill Hospital, Philadelphia.
He took his vows in St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral in Philadelphia, and was ordained by Bishop J. Carroll McCormick. He trained for the priesthood at St. Joseph's College and Preparatory Seminary in Princeton, N.J. and at Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton. He served 53 years in the priesthood of the Congregation of the Mission with the Vincentian Fathers based in Philadelphia.
His first assignment was at St. Mary's Mission in the Panama Canal Zone and he spent six years there working mostly with West Indian natives. In 1954, he returned to the Germantown section of Philadelphia for two years and then returned to Panama two years later. During his second Panama assignment, he served as chaplain of a leper colony near the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
In 1961, he returned to the United States to teach for four years at St. John's Preparatory Seminary in Brooklyn and two years at Niagara University in New York. He then worked at an inner-city Baltimore parish for four years and took a third tour of duty in Panama. Upon his return in 1976, he traveled all over the United States for preaching engagements arranged through the Vincentian Fathers. He made the rectory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Roseto, his home base.
Born in Roseto, he was a son of the late Michael and Giovina (Curcio) Renaldo.
Survivors: Sisters, Anna Greco and Carmel, both of Roseto; nieces, nephews.
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