Beatification on 24/09/2016

Priest of SA-founded order a martyr The Southern Cross, February 10 to February 16, 2016 A priest of an order that was founded in South Africa will be beatified as a martyr to Nazism. Fr Engelmar Unzeitig, who has been called “Angel of Dachau”, belonged to the Congregation of Mariannhill Missionaries, an order founded by…

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Views on Spirituality of Abbot Pfanner

By Mauricio Langa, The Southern Cross THE “historical commission” which examined thoroughly the whole documentation of the life and work of Abbot Francis Pfanner, chiefly from a historical and archival point of view, has ended its work. Its report was handed in by its president, Br Philippe Denis OP, lecturer in Church history, to Mgr…

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