Formation Gastone Mojaisky was born on 6 August 1937 in
Buonalbergo, a
comune in the
province of Benevento and the Italian region of
Campania. He was born to the
noble family of a Russian ambassador who was at the service of the
tsar. He was the son of Alceste Perrelli of the noble family of Buonalbergo (after which the city was named) and Carlo, a lawyer and municipal secretary whose family had taken refuge in Buonalbergo for political reasons and established kinship with the illustrious families of the area, including the Perrelli, Mogavero, Cosentini, and D'Amore families, the latter two originally being from
Benevento and
San Marco dei Cavoti. In Buonalbergo, Mojaisky Perrelli was raised in the Christian religion by his family, who turned to the
Catholic Church after the untimely death of Alceste Perrelli and the unexpected devotion of Anna Mojaisky, Gastone's sister, who, in memory of her mother, professed her
religious vows and took the name Sister Alceste before dying at a young age in 1934. He later graduated from the
Pontifical Lateran University, where he studied canon law, and from the
Sapienza University of Rome, where he studied classical letters. He then added to his surname that of his mother, Perrelli.
Episcopal ministry Mojaisky Perrelli was appointed
Titular Archbishop of
Amida on 8 August 1959 and was ordained a bishop on 1 November of that year by Cardinal
Domenico Tardini and co-consecrators Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi and Bishop Vittorio Longo. He was a Council Father in all four periods of the
Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. He was appointed
Archbishop of Conza-Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Bisaccia on 4 August 1973, both of which he held simultaneously until 1978. In these roles, he distinguished himself for his noble, strong-willed, austere, and upright character. On 18 November 1978, after a heated conflict with the local clergy, he resigned his pastoral offices and lived near the shrine of the Most Holy Savior in
Montella in near-
hermitage. == See also ==