CNA Staff, Jul 6, 2020 / 02:15 am
Ennio Morricone, an Oscar-winning Italian composer honored by Pope Francis, has died at the age of 91.
The Italian news agency Ansa reported July 6 that Morricone died in a Rome hospital Monday after he was admitted days earlier with a fractured femur. Morricone's lawyer Giorgio Assumma said that the composer died at dawn "with the comfort of faith."
A Rome native, he composed more than 100 classical works and 400 movie and television soundtracks.
He is perhaps best known in the Catholic world for creating the soundtrack to "The Mission," the 1986 movie depicting Spanish Jesuits' efforts to protect indigenous people from enslavement in 18th-century South America.