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Date of death Place of death Description Feast Pantaenus: 2nd century AD Sicily: c. 200 Alexandria, Egypt A Greek theologian and a significant figure in the Catechetical School of Alexandria who lived as a missionary in India. 7 July Severus of Vienne: India: c. 455 Italy: A missionary priest in France, Indian by birth. 8 August: Petroc: c. 468 ...
Francis D'Britto (4 December 1943 – 25 July 2024) was an Indian Catholic priest, writer, and environmental activist [1] from Vasai, Mumbai. [2] He was the author of the Subodh Bible, a translation of the Bible to Marathi. [3] [4] [5]
Stanislaus Lourduswamy, SJ (26 April 1937 – 5 July 2021), [1] popularly known as Stan Swamy, was an Indian Catholic priest, a member of the Jesuit order, [2] and a tribal rights activist for several decades. [3] [4] Swamy was the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India. [5]
De Mello was the oldest of five children born to Frank and Louisa (née Castellino) de Mello. He was born in Bombay, British India, on 4 September 1931. [1] He was raised in a Catholic family. At the age of 16 de Mello entered the Society of Jesus seminary of Vinalaya on the outskirts of Bombay. In 1952 he was sent to Spain to study philosophy ...
Fr. Abel Periyappuram (born Periyappuram Mathan Mathew, 19 January 1920 – 27 October 2001), commonly known as Fr. Abel, was an Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic CMI priest, journalist, and lyricist, best known as the founding father of Kalabhavan, a centre for learning performance arts in Kochi, India. [1]
Born in Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, India, he was ordained a priest in 1956. He received his doctorate in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. After returning to India, he worked as a high school principal in Mumbai. [2] Since 1972 he was associated with the Catholic Movement for Renewal in the Holy Spirit.
The Papal Nuncio to India Archbishop Pedro López Quintana, Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI), and other bishops and priests participated in the ceremony. The Feast of Blessed Kunjachan is celebrated on 16 October every year. Kunjachan had his last times at family house Thervarparampil ...
Palackal Thoma Malpan [1] (c. 1780–1841) was an Indian Catholic priest of the Syro-Malabar Church based in India. He was the senior priest and founder who envisaged the formation of the first native religious institution in India, Carmelites of Mary Immaculate also known as C.M.I. (the first native religious institute of the Eastern Catholic Church), and the founder of the first seminary for ...