Frank Wafer SJ
The one who sings
September 24, 2021
Frank Wafer SJ, Irish Jesuit missionary, died in Lusaka, Zambia on 17 September 2021. His friend Padraig Swan reflects on his life
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Celebrating Irish Jesuit missionaries
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Irish Jesuits International mark significant Jesuit anniversaries including the 70th anniversary of Frank Wafer SJ, known by the Tonga people as 'the one who sings'
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Preserving Tonga culture
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Padraig Swan, who has been visiting the Zambia-Malawi Province for many years, reports on the process of transferring archives of Tonga culture to an online platform
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