Fr Jonathan Shand SCP Rest in Peace
By Br Daniel Ambrose Manuels SCP – Retired priest Fr Jonathan Shand SCP died on April 2 at Lady Selbourne Home. He was born to William and Marie Rachel Victoire Shand, the second of...
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Joan Williamson Rest in Peace
Former Southern Cross board member Joan Williamson died on March 27 at 98. Born in 1920 in Pietermaritzburg, she was a boarder at Holy Cross Convent School in Aliwal North. After matriculating she studied...
Sister Jerome Stützel OP Rest in Peace
Oakford Dominican Sister Jerome Stützel, who was encouraged in her vocation by Padre Pio, died on March 25 at the age of 81. Born on December 3, 1937, in Würzburg, Germany, the only daughter...
A Saint for Our Times
Jean Vanier, Canadian writer, philosopher and humanitarian who died May 7, was a champion for people with intellectual disabilities and touched countless lives through his constant message of love. “The message of the Gospel,”...
Sr Carol-Anne Vornhusen OP Rest in Peace
Sr Helen-Veronica Wagner OP – Oakford Sister Carol-Anne Vornhusen died on March 27 at the age of 91. Born on February 1, 1928, in Vechta, diocese of Münster, Germany, she trained in home economics...
Sr Charitas Bartilla OP Rest in Peace
By Sr Helen-Veronica Wagner OP – Oakford Dominican Sister Charitas Bartilla died on March 27 at 97. Born Gabriela Bartilla on February 2, 1922, near Breslau (then in Germany, now Wroclaw in Poland), she...
Sr Dorothe Funken CPS, Rest in Peace
Precious Blood Sister Marie Dorothe Funken, former principal of St Francis College in Mariannhill, died in Durban on April 2 at the age of 78. Born on January 21, 1941, as Maria Angelika Funken...
Fr Michael Brady SMA Rest in Peace
Society of African Missionaries Father Michael Brady of Limpopo died on February 17 at the age of 76, after a long illness. Born in Castlebar in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1942, he responded to...
Fr John Melhuish MHM Rest in Peace
Mill Hill Missionary priest Fr John Melhuish of Rustenburg died in a car crash on March 23 at the age of 69. Fr Melhuish died in the accident some 2km away from his parish,...
Plane Crash Priest Felt South African
Friends have remembered the Kenyan priest with South African connections who died in this month’s Ethiopian Airlines crash in Addis Ababa as a jovial man with a sense of humour who had an outstanding...
Alternative Burials: An Intriguing Issue
Jacky Powell, Cape Town – I take the Southern Cross weekly and my husband (not a Catholic) turns first to Conrad and the Church Chuckle over breakfast before reading the headlines (at least) while...
Sister Othmara Metzger SAC Rest in Peace
Pallottine Sister Othmara Metzger, the long-time matron of St Joseph’s Home for Chronically Ill Children in Cape Town, died on February 17 at the age or 101. Born Justina Metzger in Werbachhausen, southern Germany,...
