Aureo Castro
Rev. Fr. Aureo Castro Nunes e Castro (1917 – 21 January 1993), better known as Father Aureo Castro, was born at Pico, on Calendaria in the Azores, Portugal. He arrived in Macau on 15 September 1931, where, at the age of 14, he entered the St Joseph Diocesan Seminary, where he studied theory, solfeggio and harmony with the fathers Wilhelm Schmid and Antonio Andre Ngan. He was ordained a priest on 8 September 1943. Fr. Aureo was professor at the seminary and also a chaplain and vicar of the Macau Cathedral. He was later appointed St Lawrence parish priest and became director of the Catholic weekly newspaper ''O Clarim''. Other posts held by Fr. Aureo included professor of choral singing and professor of \religion and morals at the Liceu and the Pedro Nolasco Commercial School. In 1951, Fr. Aureo went to Lisbon to study music at the National Conservatory, where he also studied voice and piano with Biermann, Arminda Correia and Croner de Vasconcelos (1910–1974). He was also assista ...
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