Wednesday, January 22, 2014

At last a missing Irish Dominican is remembered

Jordan O'Brien, prior at the Dominican Priory in Limerick, has distributed to Irish Dominicans a memorial card of Fr Alfred Coelho.  Fr Jordan is to be highly commended.

In winter 1976 Fr Alfred Coelho, a member of the Irish Dominican Province and a native of India, disappeared. Disappeared without trace and has never been seen since.

At the time of his disappearance he was living at the Irish Dominican community at San Clemente Rome and studying theology at the Angelicum university in the city.

After his disappearance much inaccurate information was disseminated. Like all disinformation and gossip it took legs and the inaccuracies still live on today.

His name was never recorded or included in those lists which remind the members of the province of those who have died.

He was simply forgotten and his name removed.

Jordan's prayer card respects the memory of Alfred.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is very sad.

Michael Commane said...

And more than sad.

Anonymous said...

How old was Fr Alfred when he disappeared?

Michael Commane said...

Maybe 26, 27.

Fergus said...

I see from the 1976 directory that he was born 24th May 1947, made profession 12th June 1969, ordained priest 15th October 1972. He is listed in the 1976 directory but omitted in 1977 and following years. The imprimatur of the 1977 directory from the then provincial is dated 14th September 1976. It's all very bizarre.

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