Still of Bishop Mario Civelli interviewed in 'The Island of Hong Kong, Southeast China: A CBS Special Report'

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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 15:32
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Still of Bishop Mario Civelli interviewed in 'The Island of Hong Kong, Southeast China: A CBS Special Report'
The video that kuievita gave the link to, from The Cold War Archive, shows Father Ambrogio Poletti at the border at Lo Wu, welcoming an expelled clergyman from Red China. 
The clergyman has a white beard, is wearing black clothes and a black hat.  The voiceover calls the man "a bishop", and the man identifies himself as "Mario Civelli, 41 years in China".  When asked how does it feel to be here, he replies in his Italian accent, "It is very wonderful I am free, but my heart is still with my diocese and with my Christians."
 
Thanks to kuievita for confirming the clergyman is BISHOP MARIO CIVELLI, PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions).
 
 
 
 
A photo of Bishop Mario Civelli when he was younger is on this website; scroll three quarters down the page which shows "Civelli, Mario".
Date picture taken
1953
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Father Ambrogio Poletti

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This website shows a photo that was taken almost two years after his 1953 expulsion from Red China.  The photo shows him in 1955 in Erba, north of Milan.  Scroll down to the third photo which shows him on the right hand side with white beard, walking with two other clergymen.  
 
The article reads:
"He is seen in the third photo arriving with the co-consecrators, Gaetano Pollio, bishop of Kaifeng, and Mario Civelli, bishop of Jixiang; both of them were also members of the PIFM, and at the time of this consecration, had recently been expelled from China and their sees by the new communist government."