Archives: Deceased Fathers & Brothers

Father Charles L. Callahan, MM

Father Charles L. Callahan died Friday night at 9:30 p.m., June 10, 1994, in Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. He was 73 years of age and a Maryknoll priest for 39 years. Charles Lewis Callahan was born on April 23, 1921, in New...

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Father Charles E. Buraus, MM

Father Charles E. Buraus died in his rectory at St. Teresa Catholic Church in Fushimi, Diocese of Kyoto, Japan. His doctor found him dead on Wednesday morning, September 9 at 7:30. The doctor estimated that he died peacefully...

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Father Anthony Cotta, MM

Anthony Cotta was born in Cairo, Egypt on January 7, 1872. He studied at St. Joseph’s University in Beirut and then at the Vincentian College of Antoura in Lebanon. He returned to Cairo to finish his education at the...

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Father Andrew J. Cassidy, MM

Father Andrew John Cassidy, of the Mexico Region, died on June 30th at Nutrition Hospital in Mexico City. He had gone to considerable effort to conceal the fact that he had been suffering for some time, as it was his deepest...

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Father Frederick J. Becka, MM

Frederick J. Becka died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong on March 27 (1:15 p.m., March 26, E.D.T.). Father Becka was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 6, 1919. He studied at St. Joseph’s Seminary and Holy Name...

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