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  • Makes You Wonder What His Last Thoughts Were? (Priest dies at moment of consecration)

    07/21/2011 8:30:27 AM PDT · by NYer · 14 replies
    Courageous Priest ^ | July 20, 2011
    RUMBEK,South Sudan,JULY 18,2011 (Zenit.org).- Just one week after welcoming the independence of South Sudan where he had been a missionary for three decades,Bishop Cesare Mazzolari of Rumbek died Saturday while celebrating Mass.The 74-year-old Italian Comboni missionary had been working in South Sudan since 1981,enduring the nation’s 1983-2005 civil war.On July 9,he presided over the official opening prayer during the Independence Day celebration at Freedom Square in Rumbek,which made South Sudan the newest nation of Africa.“A week later,”a communiqué from the diocese announced, “God called home his faithful servant during Eucharist,at the moment of consecration. Surely,it was a privilege from God...