{"id":2308,"date":"2015-05-21T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkpdefunts.smainternational.info\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:22:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:22:43","slug":"le-pere-alfred-michael-glynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"Le P\u00e8re Alfred Michael GLYNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions Africaines \u2013 Province d’Irlande<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"GLYNN<\/td>\nn\u00e9 le 15 mai 1911 \u00e0 Blackwater
dans le dioc\u00e8se de Portsmouth, Angleterre
membre de la SMA le 19 juin 1932
pr\u00eatre le 21 d\u00e9cembre 1935
d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 7 juillet 1961<\/td>\n		\n

1938-1943 missionnaire en Nigeria occidentale
1943-1946 Dromantine, sup\u00e9rieur et professeur
1946-1952 Dromantine, vice sup\u00e9rieur et professeur
1952-1959 Dromantine, professeur
1959-1961 Blackrock Road, Cork<\/p>\n

d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Dublin, Irlande, le 7 juillet 1961,
\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 50 ans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

(biographie en anglais \u00e0 la suite)<\/p>\n

Le p\u00e8re Alfred Michael GLYNN (1911 – 1961)<\/p>\n

A Dublin (Irlande), le 7 juillet 1961, retour \u00e0 Dieu du p\u00e8re Alfred Glynn, \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 50 ans.<\/p>\n

Alfred Michael Glynn naquit \u00e0 Blackwater, dans le dioc\u00e8se de Portsmouth, en Angleterre, en 1911. Il fit ses \u00e9tudes \u00e0 Ballinafad, Wilton et au noviciat de Kilcogan, o\u00f9 il fit le serment en 1932. L’abb\u00e9 Glynn fut alors envoy\u00e9 au coll\u00e8ge irlandais \u00e0 Rome. Il allait y rester jusqu’en 1938, sortant avec les dipl\u00f4mes de licenci\u00e9 en th\u00e9ologie et en \u00e9criture sainte, et le grade de docteur en droit canon. Il fr\u00e9quentait l’universit\u00e9 du Latran. C’est \u00e0 Rome qu’il fut ordonn\u00e9 pr\u00eatre en 1935.<\/p>\n

En 1938, le p\u00e8re Glynn fut nomm\u00e9 au vicariat de la Nigeria Occidentale. Il y laissa le meilleur souvenir. Apprenant sa mort, les anciens disaient, en faisant claquer leur langue, selon la coutume: \u00ab\u00a0Ah! Ah! C’\u00e9tait un bon, un bon p\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

En 1943, le p\u00e8re Glynn revenait en Irlande comme sup\u00e9rieur et professeur du grand s\u00e9minaire de Dromantine. En 1946, il laissait sa place de sup\u00e9rieur, restant vice-sup\u00e9rieur et professeur de dogme et d’histoire. Le p\u00e8re Glynn \u00e9tait un grand intellectuel, un grand travailleur. Mais ses milliers d’heures pass\u00e9es en \u00e9tudes abstraites ne l’avaient pas rendu indiff\u00e9rent: chacun trouvait en lui un grand accueil, une grande bont\u00e9. Le p\u00e8re Glynn avait un langage chaleureux et il avait le don d’enthousiasmer son monde.<\/p>\n

Le p\u00e8re Glynn continua ses cours \u00e0 Dromantine jusqu’en 1959, ann\u00e9e o\u00f9 il alla \u00e0 Blackrock Road. Il mourut \u00e0 l’h\u00f4pital Saint-Vincent, \u00e0 Dublin.<\/p>\n

Father Alfred Michael GLYNN (1911 – 1961)<\/p>\n

Alfred Glynn was born at Blackwater, Hants, England, in the diocese of Portsmouth, on 15 May 1911. The family address given at the time Alfred joined the Society was 11 Upland Road, Camberley, Surrey. However he grew up at Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway. He died in St. Vincent’s nursing home, Dublin, on 7 July 1961.<\/p>\n

Alfred (Alfie) Glynn was baptised in the parish of Kilcooney, Ballinasloe, in the diocese of Clonfert. He studied at the Sacred Heart college, Ballinafad, Co Mayo (1926 1927) and St. Joseph’s college, Wilton, Cork (1927 1930), before entering the Society’s novitiate and house of philosophy at Kilcolgan, Co Galway, in the autumn of 1930. He was sent to the Irish college, Rome, for his theological training, attending the Lateran University. He remained there until 1938 during which time he was awarded a B.D. degree (1934), a Licentiate in theology (1936) and a doctorate in theology (1938). His doctoral thesis was entitled ‘Dr Johannis Sinnichii Rigorismo’, dealing with the Irish theologian John Sinnich (+1603). Alfie was received as a member of the Society on 19 June 1932 and was ordained a priest in St. John Lateran’s Basilica, Rome, on 21 December 1935. The identity of the ordaining prelate is uncertain but most probably it was Archbishop Traglia who normally dispensed the sacrament at that time.<\/p>\n

In 1938 Alfie was appointed to the vicariate of Western Nigeria, the first mission in Nigeria entrusted to the Irish Province, when Thomas Broderick was appointed vicar apostolic in 1918. On his arrival in October 1938, Alfie was posted to the district of Asaba, which was the headquarters of the jurisdiction. Eugene Strub, an Alsatian member of the Society, was superior and the other priests in the district were Pat Braniff and Joseph Erameh, a Nigerian priest who had been ordained in 1936. Alfie was appointed procurator for the vicariate, responsible for its financial administration. In 1939, with the transfer of the vicar apostolic, Leo Hale Taylor, to Lagos, Patrick J. Kelly took charge of the jurisdiction. One of Bishop Taylor’s last acts before his translation was to transfer the headquarters of the vicariate to Benin City. At the same time he transferred St. Paul’s major seminary from Asaba to Benin City. This institution, opened in 1927, provided training for seminarians from all jurisdictions in the south-west, west and north of Nigeria. Alfie, too, came to Benin City, becoming Bishop Kelly’s secretary. In December 1941 he was appointed vice-superior of the seminary, assisting Tommy Murray. A report by the ‘visitor’ to the Provincial on the state of the seminary, dated May 1942, recorded that ‘Fr. Murray is about the best superior of the seminary we’ve had so far and his assistant, Dr. Glynn, is an able man, very active and practical. They are doing very well. You can well imagine how Dr. Glynn revels in expounding the \u00ab\u00a0Knots\u00a0\u00bb of theology. Both he and Fr. Murray are good holy priests, gifted with common sense and plenty humour. They help Fr. (John) Mahon in Benin City parish at the week-ends and get ample opportunities to apply \u00ab\u00a0the principles\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

In 1943 Alfie returned to Ireland as superior and professor of senior dogmatic theology in the major seminary at Dromantine. At the time there were some 60 students receiving their theological formation. From 1946 he was vice superior of the seminary and in addition to dogmatic theology taught Church history and elocution. As a professor in Dromantine, he strove to give of his very best. A compassionate man, he was always very concerned about the well-being of the students and would lend a truly attentive ear whenever called upon. He found time, too, to do research into the history of Dromantine Castle and had it written up before he left Dromantine. His papers in the Society’s archives at Blackrock Road include three articles written in 1941 under the title ‘Our Catholic Homes’, dealing with Christian marriage in Nigeria. There is also a very thorough survey of traditional marriage custom in Nigeria, dealing particularly with financial aspects, the nature of the contract, the dowry, and the rights and obligations of husband and wife. This study is entitled: ‘This Marriage Business’.<\/p>\n

In June 1959 Alfie was appointed to the propaganda office and public oratory in the Province’s headquarters at Blackrock Road, Cork. He had history of continuing heart ailments and died after an operation in St. Vincent’s nursing home, Dublin, on July 6th. He bequeathed his valuable library to Dromantine.<\/p>\n

He is buried in Wilton cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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