The Last Days of Father Cimatti
Father Cimatti led the Salesians in Japan
until 1949, when he retired as Provincial at the age of 70. Not keen on office, he became the seminary's librarian for two years,
patiently completing a catalogue of the books by hand.
However, in 1952, he was appointed rector of the Salesian Seminary in Chofu, where he devoted the rest of his life to training young people until the very end.
He retired from the front line in 1962 at the age of 83.
During the last two years of his life, he was exhausted and died in bed at the seminary, repeating,
"My job now is to pray." He was called to God peacefully on October 6, 1965, at the age of 86.。
Father Cimatti, who wished to "become Japanese soil," was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Fuchu for two years.
