RHODE ISLAND
Valley Breeze
By GERRY GOLDSTEIN, Valley Breeze & Observer Correspondent
SMITHFIELD – As a devout Catholic, the late millionaire Gabrielle Mee entrusted her faith – and her finances – to the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado.
According to court documents, she “worshipped him nearly as a saint.”
But in the end, Father Maciel, as he was commonly known, was unmasked as a sexual predator who disgraced the religious order he founded in 1941, the Legionaries of Christ.
For years, Mee, who knew Maciel personally, gave his international order millions of dollars, joined it as a “consecrated woman” in her old age, and then willed it all her assets.
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