{"id":1017,"date":"2015-01-22T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkpdefunts.smainternational.info\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2015-01-22T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:53:55","slug":"le-pere-francis-hynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Le P\u00e8re Francis HYNES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions Africaines \u2013Province des Etats-Unis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"HYNES<\/td>\nn\u00e9 le 26 d\u00e9cembre 1918 \u00e0 Highwood
dans le dioc\u00e8se d’Elphin, Irlande
membre permanent de la SMA le 12 avril 1944
pr\u00eatre le 18 mai 1944
d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 10 mars 2000<\/td>\n		\n

1944-1947 Savannah, paroisse Saint-Beno\u00eet<\/p>\n

1947-1949 Augusta, paroisse de l’Immacul\u00e9e Conception
1949-1958 Dedham, professeur
1958-1968 Tenafly, conseiller provincial
1968-1978 Dedham, sup\u00e9rieur
1978-1988 missionnaire au Liberia, Monrovia
1988-1990 Dedham, animation missionnaire
1990-1996 missionnaire au Liberia, Logantown
1996-2000 Dedham, animation missionnaire<\/p>\n

d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de Dedham, le 10 mars 2000,
\u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 81 ans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Father Francis Stephen HYNES (1918 – 2000)<\/p>\n

Francis Hynes was born in Highwood, Boyle, Co Sligo, Ireland, on December 26, 1918. He died in Norwood Caritas Hospital, near Dedham, Massachusetts, on March 10, 2000.<\/p>\n

Francis (Frank) was one of seven children born to Martin and Bridget M. (nee Gardiner) Hynes. He attended Highwood National School where his father was Principal. In 1932, at the age of 14, Frank filled in an application coupon in the African Missionary. Later that year, on September 5, he entered the Society of African Missions Junior Apostolic School, the Sacred Heart College, Ballinafad, Co Mayo. After a year he was promoted to the senior school, St. Joseph\u2019s College, Wilton, Cork, graduating in 1936. He went to the Society\u2019s novitiate and house of philosophy, at Kilcolgan, Co Galway, in October 1937. During his last year in Wilton Frank had attended lectures at University College Cork. During his time in Kilcolgan he continued to attend university lectures at University College Galway, receiving an honors BA degree (philosophy and education) in June 1939.<\/p>\n

After completing his course in Kilcolgan Frank was still determined to become a priest. During Autumn 1939 he applied to various dioceses for admission but without success. He spent some time teaching in an evening school, but continued to seek a means to re-commence his studies. Finally, in a letter dated May 1, 1940, he applied to join the American Pro-Province (the American Branch of the SMA was erected as a full Province in March 1941), and was accepted. Coming with good references from the Irish Province and his local Bishop, he arrived in America in time to commence his novitiate in Queen of Apostles Seminary, Silver Spring, Maryland on January 2, 1941. He also enrolled in the Catholic University of America at Washington DC, where he completed his theology and also acquired a Licentiate in Theology (STL), conferred in 1944. Frank was received as a member of the Society on December 23, 1942. He was ordained a priest at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington, by Most Rev. Bishop Keyes, SM, on May 18, 1944.<\/p>\n

Frank spent the first two years of his priestly ministry in St. Benedict the Moor Church, Savannah, Georgia, the first SMA mission in America, dating from 1906. Frank\u2019s next assignment was as assistant at Immaculate Conception Church and High School, Augusta, where Fr. Laugel was superior (1947-1949). Frank was a man of superior intelligence clearly destined for a teaching ministry. It came as no surprise therefore that in 1950 he was assigned to the teaching staff at the Society\u2019s seminary in Dedham, Mass. where students studied philosophy. Frank also exhibited an unusual talent as a promoter of the Society and the Missions and readily engaged in this work alongside his teaching duties. Eight years later he was elected a Provincial Councilor, residing during the course of his term (until 1968) in the Provincial headquarters at Tenafly NJ. On the completion of his term Frank returned to Dedham as Superior of the seminary and assistant in the work of promotion.<\/p>\n

In 1978 Frank\u2019s priestly career took a change of direction. He was then sixty years old and when asked by his superiors he willingly agreed to go to Liberia where he became superior of the Province\u2019s Guest House, in Monrovia. He was to spend most of his remaining active years in Liberia. Later he was to write: \u2018I am so glad that I did what I did in 1978. They have been indeed among the most rewarding years of my life\u2019. Once in Liberia Frank was indeed rejuvenated. A year after arriving he took up an appointment as pastor of St. Anthony\u2019s parish, Gardnersville. Shortly afterwards the Archbishop of Monrovia, Michael Francis Kpakala, appointed him his Vicar-General. But these were tragic years for Liberia. Shortly after Frank\u2019s arrival trouble broke out on the streets of Monrovia with the \u2018Rice Riot\u2019 of 1979. This was the beginning of a long period of political upheaval that left thousands dead, wounded and homeless. Frank was pastor in St. Anthony\u2019s for nine years. From 1988-1990, needing a change from the tropics he returned to Dedham where he again assisted in the work of promotion. However once he had regained his strength he returned to Liberia becoming pastor of St. Edward\u2019s Parish, Logantown. He served here until the Liberian civil war necessitated his evacuation by the US navy in April 1996 along with his confreres James Hickey, Jim Gessler and Mike Moran. This was the second occasion on which he had been evacuated since the outbreak of civil war in 1989. During these years of terrible civil strife he witnessed atrocities and appalling loss of life.<\/p>\n

Frank spent the remaining four years of his life in semi-retirement at Dedham, assisting in the work of promotion. He had already spent much of his earlier life here, in the Archdiocese of Boston, becoming one of the most significant forces in making SMA known in the Boston area. In the Dedham area he became known as \u2018the father of field days\u2019 Frank was the second SMA priest to be ordained in the American Province \u2013 the first was John Mulvey. Frank\u2019s sister, Maura, was a religious in the Marist Convent, Fulham Road, London. Her name in religion was Finnian.<\/p>\n

He is buried in the SMA Community plot, in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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