ITAIn the first hours of Sunday, 29 December 2013, our brother Priest has ended his earthly existence FR. FUJIO PIETRO ATANASIO TANIGUCHI 76 years, 63 of Pauline life, 48 of priesthood He passed away at night, at 10.50 p.m. (local time), in the Catholic hospital "San Giovanni Saku- ra-Machi" of Tokyo, where he was admitted about a month ago due to a form of tumor spread and diagnosed in an advanced state. Coming from Tabira (Nagasaki, Japan), where he was born on 15 December 1937, Fujio Pietro entered the Society of Saint Paul in Fukuoka on 21 March 1950, at the age of twelve. He had his first Pauline formation in the seminary of Fukuoka, attending to his intellectual for- mation and dedicating himself to the printing press apostolate. Starting 8 April 1957 followed the year of novitiate in Tokyo, which ended with his religious profession on 9 April 1958, when he as- sumed the new name of Atanasio. Three years later, on 9 April 1961, he made his perpetual profes- sion in Akasaka-Tokyo.
