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Prayer for January 27th

WE GIVE CONSTANT THANKS TO YOU, RISEN SAVIOUR, WHEN WE PONDER THEIR LIVES. YOU GAVE THEM STRENGTH FOR US.

List of Deceased Clergy, only year of death known
List of Deceased Clergy, date of death unknown

This is an historical record of the death of clergy in Australia for the 27th of January:

2013
Rev Patrick McCabe SM Read more
Born 28/01/1928; Ordained 08/07/1961 - Marist Fathers.

Pat's parents, John and Josephine, together with two boys and one girl migrated to Sydney from Northern Ireland in 1927. The family increased when Pat was born in 1928, followed by Vin in 1929 and Brendan in 1934. It was Depression time and Pat's father secured work as a hotel manager at Bankstown.

After working as a hotel bar manager, driving semis and lastly cutting sleepers, Pat followed his younger brother Vin into the Marist formation programme. He was ordained in Sydney on 8 July 1961 and after 7 years as a priest teacher at the Marist Fathers' college at Burnie (TAS),

Pat moved into parish ministry and served in parishes in Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, and at St Patrick's Church, Church Hill, Sydney. Following reluctant retirement in 2012, he lived briefly at Hunters Hill and Drummoyne.

May he rest in peace.
2012
Rev Victor Dalton Read more
Born 21/12/1939;
Date of Ordination: 28/06/1969 - Diocese of Townsville.

Vic was ordained on 28 June 1969 by Bishop Leonard Faulkner. He served in the parishes at Mundingburra, Ingham, Bowen, Julia Creek, Hughenden, Railway Estate, Mt Isa and West Townsville from where he retired in 2005.

Rest in peace Vic.
2011
Rev William Shanahan PE Born 01/03/1930.
1886
Rev Patrick Hudson Toowoomba, Blackall, etc, Qld
1900
Rev Hugh Charles Horan OFM Adelaide, etc, SA
1938
Rev Patrick Reidy Wagga dioc, NSW
1945
Rev Paul Cullen CM Ashfield, Eastwood, NSW, etc
1947
Rev John Bruton Howard Dunedoo, Bathurst, etc, NSW
1954
Rev Mgr Patrick J O'Donnell Parramatta, etc, NSW
1961
Rev Thomas Brosnan Bathurst dioc, NSW
1966
Rev Joseph F Dorrian CM Malvern, Vic; Southport, Qld; Sandhurst dioc, Vic
1974
Rev Timothy Reen Bathurst dioc, NSW
1984
Rev Jeremiah Healey Bathurst dioc, NSW
2004
Rev Patrick McQuilIan Melbourne dioc
2008
Rev Brian Francis Byron Ashbury, Erskineville, Five Dock, Elizabeth Bay, Camperdown, Manly, Toukley, Gladesville - Archdiocese of Sydney, NSW

Clergy who died in January, exact date of death unknown:

1881Rev Thomas O'Callaghan Sandhurst dioc, Vic
1897Rev David Kiniry SJ Melbourne
1972Rev Francis Milburn Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne VIC

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