{"id":586,"date":"2015-01-02T15:57:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkpdefunts.smainternational.info\/?p=586"},"modified":"2015-01-02T15:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:57:49","slug":"le-pere-patrick-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Le P\u00e8re Patrick CARROLL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions Africaines – Province d’Irlande<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"carrol<\/td>\nn\u00e9 le 24 octobre 1924
dans le dioc\u00e8se de Liverpool (Grande Bretagne)
membre de la SMA le 1er juillet 1943
pr\u00eatre le 18 juin 1947
d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 28 janvier 2009<\/td>\n		\n

1947-1950 Universit\u00e9 de Cambridge, \u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures
1950-1951 Universit\u00e9 de Londres, PCE
1951-1952 coll\u00e8ge de Ballinafad, professeur
1952-1961 archidioc\u00e8se de Lagos, Nigeria
1961-1962 coll\u00e8ge de Ballinafad, professeur
1962-1969 archidioc\u00e8se de Lagos, Nigeria
1969-1972 coll\u00e8ge de Maynooth, professeur
1972-1980 universit\u00e9 de Monrovia, Liberia, professeur
1980-1989 Monrovia, en paroisse
1989-1996 Philippines
1996-2009 Wilton, retir\u00e9<\/p>\n

d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Cork, le 28 janvier 2009,
\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 84 ans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Father Patrick CARROLL (1924 – 2009)<\/p>\n

Patrick James Carroll was born at Bootle, Liverpool (West Derby), England, in the Archdiocese of Liverpool, on 24 October 1924.
He died on Wednesday, 28th January 2009, in St. Theresa\u2019s Nursing Unit, S.M.A. House, Blackrock Road, Cork, Ireland.<\/p>\n

The fourth of eight children ( four sons and four daughters) born to Francis James and Mary Josephine (nee Kehoe) Carroll, Patrick (Paddy), was baptised in St. Alphonsus\u2019 Church, Great Mersey Street, Liverpool, on 26th October 1924. Shortly after Paddy\u2019s birth the family moved to the Wirral, and a little later to Wallasey in Chesire. Both of Paddy\u2019s parents were of Irish extraction. His paternal grandfather had worked as a foreman on the Liverpool docks – the family also ran a small shop \u2013 while his maternal grandfather owned a grocery store on Scotland Road until driven out of business by the Freemasons because of his religion. Paddy\u2019s father was a schoolteacher. Paddy received his primary education at St. Alban\u2019s Catholic Primary School, Wallasey (1929-1937). For his secondary education (1936-1940) he attended St. Edward’s college, Liverpool (a Christian Brothers school, first located at St. Domingo Road, a stones throw from Anfield football stadium, and later, from 1939, in West Derby. Paddy\u2019s contact with the S.M.A. came through his older brother, Kevin, who had joined the Society in 1936. There was also the influence of Fr. Pat Shine S.M.A., a relative of his father by marriage, and another local-born S.M.A., Fr. Joseph Crawford S.M.A., a close friend of his parents, who had served in the Liberian mission field.<\/p>\n

Paddy came to the S.M.A. in 1940, commencing a First Arts Course at University College Cork, while living at St. Joseph\u2019s College, Wilton. A year later he entered the Society\u2019s novitiate and house of philosophy, at Kilcolgan, Co Galway. While in Kilcolgan he attended lectures at University College, Galway, and in-house lectures given by a SMA priest designated by the university. In 1943 he was awarded a B.A. degree (his subjects were philosophy and education). He was first received as a member of the Society on 1 July 1943. Later that year he was promoted to the Society\u2019s major seminary, at Dromantine, Newry, Co Down. Paddy became a permanent member of the Society on 14 June 1945. He was ordained a priest in St. Colman\u2019s cathedral, Newry, by Bishop Eugene O\u2019Doherty of Dromore diocese, on 18 June 1947. He was one of a group of sixteen ordained on that occasion.
Paddy was ordained at a time when the second-level education apostolate was being vigorously pursued in the Society\u2019s Anglophone West African Missions, mainly in Nigeria and the Gold Coast (now Ghana). To supply headmasters and teachers for these educational institutions the Society was increasingly sending suitable confreres to universities to secure the appropriate academic qualifications. It was against this background that Paddy was sent to Cambridge University to study for an Arts Degree. In 1950 he was awarded an Honours degree (English Literature was his principal subject) by Christ\u2019s College, Cambridge. He spent the next year at London University where he obtained a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education. He was awarded a Masters Degree from Cambridge in 1953.<\/p>\n

In September 1951 Paddy was appointed to the staff of the Sacred Heart College, Ballinafad, Co Mayo, the Society\u2019s secondary school or juniorate. He taught English, European and Irish history – and also took charge of the orchards – until 1952 when (at his own request) he was assigned to Africa \u2013 to the Archdiocese of Lagos in sourthern Nigeria. Disembarking on October 22nd from the Aureol, he was posted to the staff of St. Leo\u2019s Higher Elementary Teacher Training College, Ibara, Abeokuta, where there were some 300 young men training to become teachers. This important institution had been founded four years earlier by Leo Hale Taylor, then Vicar Apostolic of the jurisdiction. In mid-January 1953 Paddy was transferred to St. Gregory\u2019s College where Tommy Moran, S.M.A., was principal. This school \u2013 Nigeria\u2019s first Catholic secondary college \u2013 had been originally founded in 1877 as an elementary school with a section for training elementary teachers. In 1928 it had become a fully-fledged secondary college under Leo Hale Taylor. In 1955 Paddy returned to Ireland to produce a Centenary Magazine marking the Society\u2019s foundation in 1956. 100 Years of Missionary Achievement, which he edited, was an excellent survey of the Society\u2019s work since its foundation and has proved an invaluable source for historians. After its publication he returned to Lagos, resuming his duties at St. Gregory\u2019s and also taking on the onerous duty of Chief Examiner and Moderator for most of the English tests run by the West African Examinations Council. He continued this work until invalided home in 1961. Suffering from a stomach ulcer which necessitated major surgery, Paddy recuperated in Ballinafad, until he was able to return to his teaching duties at St. Gregory\u2019s in September 1962. During the Easter vacation of 1966 he was appointed Principal of St. Anthony\u2019s Grammar School, Esure, replacing Bob Hales S.M.A. In February 1969 he handed over his Principalship to an African and spent the next four months as acting parish priest of St. Anthony\u2019s parish, Surulere, Lagos.<\/p>\n

In 1970, as part of the process of relocating the S.M.A. seminary from Dromantine to St. Patrick\u2019s College Maynooth, a group of S.M.A. philosophy students took up residence in the College pending the erection of an S.M.A. house. Paddy was appointed superior of this group. He also took up a lectureship in English at the College and kept an eye on the new S.M.A. house then under construction. He performed these duties until July 1972 when at last the students were able to move into the completed house and Billy Foley SMA transferred from Dromantine as its first superior. Paddy was then appointed to the Society\u2019s mission in Liberia, West Africa. Here he ministered as chaplain to the University of Liberia where he also served as a lecturer. Some months after his arrival he was appointed assistant professor of English. In 1979, suffering from exhaustion, he was advised by his Doctor to give up teaching and in January 1980 he resigned his post, leaving at the end of term in July of that year. He then took up parish work in the Monrovia archdiocese, first in Sannequellie and later at LAC, a vast rubber plantation located near Buchanan (owned by the Uniroyal and Goodrich Tyre Company). At LAC he served both as chaplain to the Consolata Sisters and as parish priest. He was to work in Liberia until 1989, with two periods of hospitalization in Ireland during 1984.<\/p>\n

Paddy took on a new challenge in October 1989 when he went to the Philippines \u2013 location of a new S.M.A. Foundation \u2013 to assist John McCormack S.M.A. as assistant pastor in the Good Shepherd Parish, Las Pinas, Manila. In 1991 he was posted to the staff of the \u2018International Spiritual Year Programme for Asia\u2019, based at Silang. In fact this house of formation had not yet been opened and Paddy was immediately engaged in purchasing what was needed to supply the house \u2013 fridges, cutlery, mattresses and other basic equipment. In December preparations were complete and Noel Bradley, the director, and eleven students left their temporary home in New Manila to take up permanent residence. In October 1992 ill-health intervened and Paddy returned to Cork for extensive medical treatment. In particular the surgery undergone in 1961, during which much of his stomach was removed, began to cause him problems and he experienced difficulties in keeping up his weight. However as soon as he had made a reasonable recovery he returned to the Philippines, arriving there on 1st May 1994. He continued there until August 1996 when he retired from the active ministry.<\/p>\n

In 1997 Paddy had the joy of celebrating the Golden Jubilee of his ordination and in 2007 the Diamond Jubilee. In October 2008 he underwent a heart bypass operation and in December of the same year he received a hip replacement. After this latter operation he came to Blackrock Road to convalesce until he felt well enough to return to Wilton. Unfortunately a few days after his return to Wilton he had a fall which damaged his hip. After a further operation he came to Blackrock Road for nursing care. However his health deteriorated and he died peacefully early on the morning of Wednesday 28th January 2009.<\/p>\n

Paddy had a great love of literature and enjoyed lecturing on that subject. Over the years he produced articles, book reviews, as well as lecture notes for his students (now retained in the S.M.A. archives). His 100 Years of Missionary Achievement is an enduring book, beautifully written and illustrated. Paddy was a superb sportsman. He played golf to a high standard throughout his adult life. He was equally adept at cricket and soccer; and during his student days in Ireland, mastered the games of hurling and gaelic football. It is probable he could have followed a professional career in sport. In his own estimation, soccer was the sport he played best. It is worth recording that it was always a pleasure to play a game of golf with Paddy, no matter how inferior one\u2019s standard. He was always most kind, and willing, in his gentle fashion, to offer advice. In St. Gregory\u2019s College he played a central role in elevating the standard of the students in Athletics and Football, to such an extent that , for a period, St. Gregory\u2019s was Nigeria\u2019s premier college in those sports.<\/p>\n

Asked on the occasion of his Golden Jubilee which of his appointments gave him most happiness Paddy replied that generally each posting suited him well. He enjoyed equally teaching, parish ministry, and formation work. Paddy was predeceased by his brother, Fr. Kevin S.M.A., his sisters, Eithne, Mary and Eileen (an Irish Sister of Charity), and his brother Colm. He was mourned by his sister Attracta and his brother Brendan as well as many nieces and nephews, relatives, friends and his confreres in the Society.<\/p>\n

He is buried in the S.M.A. Cemetery, Wilton, Cork, Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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