February 1 FR. PAUL R. SMITH was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, USA in 1934. He died at the Veterans’ Hospital in Leavenworth, Kansas, on February 1, 1983. Father Paul was educated at Cretin High, St. Paul; St. Columban’s College, Milton [1952-54]; and St. Columban’s Major Seminary, Milton [1954-61]. He was ordained priest in 1960, appointed …
February 8 FR. COLM RAFFERTY was born on 2 March 1929 in Craigavole, Swatragh, Co. Derry. He was ordained on 21 December 1953 and his first appointment was to Negros where he became fluent in Ilonggo and suffered from mosquitoes and horses. He served in Binalbagan, Cauayan, Sipalay, Dancalan and Candoni. After home vacation in …
February 26 FR. PATRICK HYNES was born in 1925 at Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. He died at Dalgan on February 26, 2004, having retired there in 1996. He had been in ill health for several years. Having completed his secondary studies at St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny, Fr. Pat came to Dalgan in 1943 and was ordained …
April 2 FR. AODH O’HALPIN, born in Dundalk on 31 January 1934, grew up in Letterkenny. He came to Dalgan in 1952 and was ordained on 21 December 1958. Appointed to the Philippines, he ministered for nineteen years in Mindanao, in Ozamiz City, Oroquieta and Tukuran. In the early 1980s he moved to London where …
January 4 PILAR TILOS was born in Hinoba-an, Negros Occ., Philippines in 1940. Baptized by a Columban priest, Pilar was a member of the 1990 first group of Columban lay missionaries, called RP 1, to be assigned to Pakistan. Hard-working and full of life and humour, Pilar died in her sleep at St. Columban’s, Lahore …
January 8 BRO. PETER RYAN [Brother Colman] was born at Warrenpoint, County Down, Ireland in 1903. He died at Dalgan on January 8, 1971. He was a salesman before coming to Dalgan in 1928. He learned building and construction, and went to Hanyang, China in 1933. There Bishop Galvin put him in charge of an …
January 17 FR. MICHAEL CULLEN was born in 1925 at Tullysaran, County Armagh, Ireland. He died on January 17, 2006 at Craigavon Hospital, Co. Armagh. Educated at C.B.S., Armagh, Fr. Michael came to Dalgan in 1942 and was ordained there in 1948. Assigned to the Philippines, he spent a total of forty-seven years on the Island …
January 24 FR. ROBERT W. BURKE was born in Chicago in 1923. He died on January 24, 2011. Fr. Bob graduated from Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary in 1949 for the Archdiocese of Chicago where he worked for five years. In 1954 he was granted permission to join the Columbans. The following year he was …
