Ennio Morricone Has died: "Comforted by the Faith"
His name is especially linked to the film Mission (1986), the story of a converted slave trader who joins a Spanish Jesuit among the South American Indians in the 18th century.
Years later, one morning, while Morricone was bying the newspapers in Piazza del Gesù, a Jesuit approached him and asked him to write a Mass for the two hundredth anniversary of the reconstitution of the Society of Jesus, after its suppression in 1773,
"Shortly before the performance, Pope Francis came to visit the church and they arranged a meeting. Alone with him, Maria [his wife] and I burst into tears; Francis looked at us silently," Morricone recounted later:
"After a few minutes I was able to speak, I told him about Mission, the Mass and asked him to come and listen. He gave us two rosaries. But he did not come. The Vatican said that he had to receive Putin. And what was the problem? We waited. Maybe he was bringing Putin too."
"The truth is that Francis never attended a concert. Go and check it out, you'll see if it's not true. Don't think I'm a crybaby anyway: I only cried those two times there, for Mission [when he saw a scene from the film] and when meeting the Pope".
His family specified that Morricone died “comforted by the faith” at the Opus Dei Università Campus Bio-Medico.
Morricone wrote the music for more than 500 films and TV series, as well as works of contemporary music.
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