St. Patrick’s College Archives

Jaffna’s very own Irishman: Fr. Charles Henry Lytton OMI-by Avishka Mario Senewiratne Source:Island Early days of the Irish Oblate Born on May 25, 1847, Charles Henry Lytton hailed from Dublin, Ireland. Little is known of his childhood and early days. However, it is known that his mother lived until 1893 and he had no less than seven sisters. He received his education from a College run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Dublin. After choosing to be a priest, 22-year-old Lytton joined the Anglo-Irish Province of Oblates. He passed the Oblate Novitiate in Sicklingball, Yorkshire in 1869. On September 12, 1870, he made his First Profession of Vows in Belmont. A year later, he made his Final Profession of Vows in Autun, France. From 1871 to 1875 he did his scholastic studies in Autun. He was ordained by Msgr. Adolphe Perraud, Bishop of Autun (a Cardinal after 1893), on ...

A Noble Servant, Goes to His Redeemer’s Rest Bishop Victor Gnanapragasam OMI-by The Francis D’ Almeida Source:Dailymirror Death came suddenly to Bishop Victor Gnanapragasam, the Apostolate Vicar of the city of Quetta, in the mountainous southwest Baluchistan region of Pakistan. Warned in travel advisories as an unsafe region, Baluchistan is often engulfed in bloody conflicts. In 2013, Bishop Victor, as he is affectionately known, narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded near his residence. However, he suffered injuries. In Another gruesome attack, a suicide bomber killed eight and injured 44 worshippers in a Roman Catholic church in 2017. As recently as January 3, 2021, ten coal miners of the Hazar tribe of the Shiah Islamic faith were abducted and executed in the region, in what was claimed to be the work of ISIS. Despite such a perilous state of affairs and travel restrictions imposed by the army owing to an ...