Abstract/Sommario: Fr. Clement Vismara, a PIME missionary priest, had to overcome many obstacles in bringing Cathoicism to Burma. He's also under consideration to become the first blessed from the Church of Myanmar. This was the result of research done on the healing of a boy, attributed to theintercession of the priest who was called "the patriarch of Burma" If the healing is approved to be a miracle, it will open the doors to the beatification. Father Vismara carried out his work for 65 years (1923-8 ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Fr. Clement Vismara, a PIME missionary priest, had to overcome many obstacles in bringing Cathoicism to Burma. He's also under consideration to become the first blessed from the Church of Myanmar. This was the result of research done on the healing of a boy, attributed to theintercession of the priest who was called "the patriarch of Burma" If the healing is approved to be a miracle, it will open the doors to the beatification. Father Vismara carried out his work for 65 years (1923-88) in the forested mountains of Burma: he was immediatly invoked as "protector of children" because he always lived among 200 to 500 orphans, whom he used to collect from villages destroyed by war or were lost through hunger or disease. Others fathers are remembered in the article: Fr. Cremonesi, who served in Burma for nearli 28 years before his death in 1953,gunned down by government troops in the village of Donoku; Fr. Felice Tantardini "Brother Iron", who left Italy for Burma in 1922 and died there in 1991 at the age of 93.