Claudio Massa, born in Cuneo in 1959, followed in the footsteps of his cousin Bruno Parola in Catholic Action, until he became Diocesan Director of ACR in 1986. He graduated in Mathematics, carrying out teaching as a fundamental educational mission, while also carrying out intense volunteer service activities in the diocesan Caritas, of which he was appointed vice president in 1996. He is considered the emblem of a Christian layman according to the style nourished by the Gospel in the light of the Second Vatican Council. He died after a hard ordeal of cancer, lived in exemplary serenity, on August 20, 2007.
Friends of Claudio, Claudio the joyful face of service, Cuneo, Edizioni Agami, 2012
Gazzola Gian Michele – Mondino Angela, Catholic Action 1868 – 2008. Faces for the Diocese and for the City, Cuneo, Primalpe, 2008, pp. 99-100.
Rapetti Vittorio (edited by), Lay People in the Church, Christians in the World for a History of Catholic Action in the Local Churches of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta, Acqui Terme (Al), Editrice Impressioni Grafiche, 2010, pp. 163-164.