Marcelo Rossi

Marcelo Mendona Rossi is a Brazilian Catholic priest widely known and popular in the country for his novel approaches to ministering to the faithful. He is a singer and uses music intensely in his masses, has recorded several music CDs, is a host to several radio and TV programs in many stations, has appeared as an actor in two movies with religious themes. All of them have been big hits in the media, but Father Rossi donates all the proceedings to Catholic charities and to his own parish.

Father Rossi is based in So Paulo city, where he was born and studied. He preaches at the Santurio do Tero Bizantino to enormous and enthusiastic crowds, and has promoted the use of the socalled Byzantine rosary for praying. In 2003, one of his masses, celebrated at soccer stadium, was held for the fourteen NASA astronauts who lost their lives in the Space Shuttle Challenger disasteryears earlier on January 28, 1986 and the morerecent Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, and had more than 70,000 attendees.

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