From 1889, Pace began evangelism in Abruzzo to Paglieta, Gissi, Lanciano and Pescara.Cenni di storia del movimento delle assemblee dei fratelli in Italia, Chiese dei Fratelli in Italia, Dio è con te, paragrafo 5 e 6 In 1925, he moved with his wife Lucia Pace form Pescara to Florence, where he took part as leader of the "Istituto Comandi",Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin, 2001, pp. 270–271 a center founded in 1876 by Giuseppe Comandi as an orphanage. In 1928, Pace published a religion treaty about Augustine of Hippo.Le Biografie, Camillo Pace, Associazione Storico Culturale Sant'Agostino
In 1930, along with Gino Veronesi, Pace became the Director of the "Ebenezer", a newspaper printed by the Istituto Comandi which, despite its Plymouth Brethren roots,Andrea Diprose, Recensione del libro di G. Spini: Italia di Mussolini e protestanti, pp. 5–6 published articles open to most important social and human activities and gave voice to the Protestant anti-Nazi resistance in Germany.G. Spini, Italia di Mussolini e Protestanti, Turin, Claudiana, Italy, 2007, p. 234 Before his Religious conversion, Pace had belonged to a Masonic Lodge.Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin, 2001, p. 330 This was held against him by the Italian Fascists, as were his alleged opposing the war. In 1939, he was charged with being Anti-fascismAndrea Diprose, Lux Biblica, Claudiana, Turin, Recensioni: G. Spini, Italia di Mussolini e Protestanti, foglio 5/6 and was subsequently deported to Calabria in 1942.Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin, 2001, p. 432 He accepted the persecution without rebelling, believing that to be the will of God.Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin, 2001, p. 432 At the end of the war he returned to Pescara.
Camillo had five children. His descendants include Aurelio Pace,Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin, 2001, p. 270 a member of the Partito d'Azione in Florence,Joseph Pace' Filtranisme, di Marcello Paris,, Equitazione&Ambiente Arte, Roma, Italia, 2008 an historian of UNESCO and father of founder of the "Filtranisme", the artist Joseph Pace, and Mario VonvillerMarcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin, 2001, p. 359 of the Plymouth Brethren in Switzerland.
Camillo Pace died in 1948 in Pescara, then 86, in the house of his son Aurelio Pace, who fought as an Italian Officer with the British Eighth Army in Italy in World War II.
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