SUPERIOR-GENERAL OF MARIST ORDER DEAD
REV. BROTHER COLUMBANUS. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. The death occurred in Auckland today of the Rev. Brother Columbanus, assistant Superior-General of the Marist Brothers Order. Brother Columbanus was a native of County Cavan, Ireland. In 1910 he was named Superior (Provincial) of the Province of South Africa. His term as Provincial had not expired when he was called upon in 1914 to assume the duties of assistant Superior-General of the Marist Brothers in addition to sharing in the government and administration of the Marist congregation as a whole. He was especially responsible for the main English-speaking provinces—namely Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and he had to visit each Brothers’ school in these countries once every three years. It was while he was on his visit to the South Sea Islands which forms part of the New Zealand Province that he was stricken with tho illness which proved fatal.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6550, 6 March 1928, Page 7
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