Father Joseph M. Melito  passed away on September 7, 2015 at the age of 67. He had been ill for some time and the chapel he was renting had been closed and sold. Father became a traditionalist in the 70’s and eventually established a chapel in Glendale, California and named it the Archangel Gabriel. Father Melito was also a Chaplin for the Los Angeles Police department.

A funeral Mass was said on September 19 at Our Lady of the Angels Church in Arcadia, CA. an SSPX Church.
I knew Father Melito and he will be sorely missed. In one of his last letters to me he closed by saying, “May this Easter Season remind both of us that no matter what the ‘daily page’ of our life brings us, that with God, the last chapter of our ‘book’ has a happy ending.

Sincerely, Father Melito