Santo Amaro: COVID-19, a missionary from India who has been serving in the South American country of Brazil for the past four decades, has died. Fr. Mario Da Monte Beatrice died last night. He was 81 years old, serving for the last forty years under the diocese of Santo Amaro. Covenant control is strict and few people have attended the funeral. He accepted Tirupattam from Goa in 1962 and later joined the missionary mission to Brazil.