Vincent Capodanno was born on February 13, 1929 on Staten Island in New York. His early life was characterized by service to his family and the community where he lived. Always trying to help out, especially when difficult economic times stretched the family’s budget, Vincent was the one to whom people went for many needs, for they knew that he would be present to them in every way possible. He completed his initial education and then entered Fordham University, but God was calling him to a higher form of service and love. He decided to enter the religious formation program for the Maryknoll Missioners, a United States-based, but international organization of priests who shared God’s love with those less fortunate throughout the world. He was eventually ordained a priest in 1957 and sent t…