RIP
R.I.P.
Fr .Gorosquieta Jose Luis (GUJ)
78/60 expired on Tuesday ( 03- 07-2012 ) around 6.00p.m in Radhanpur. He had
a severe heart attack and he died in the Hospital in Radhanpur.
The funeral was held at
4.00 p.m in Catholic Ashram, Dhandhuka on
Wednesday (04-07-2012).
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 18- 06 1934
Entrance in the Society: 07 -09-
1952
Final Vows: 15- 08-1979
Priesthood: 25-03-1965
Died : 03-07-2-12
Responsibilities Held
Asst.PP : Mariampura _
Petlad 1967
Parish Priest (Acting from
Mariampura) 1968
Parish Priest- Mariampura –Petlad:
1969
Parish Priest: Dhandhuka 1976 – 2004
Superior : Dhandhuka – Sanand 2004-
2010
Asst PP: Dhandhuka 2004- 2012
Apostle of Dhandhuka
Mission
He
Came to India and went for theological studies in Pune and after that he began
to study seriously the Gujarati by attending classes in a local school and
practicing it as best as he could whilst visiting the houses of the poor of the
neighbourhood to whom he would distribute simple medicines for their various
ailments. People also remember with a good deal of amusement his contribution
to the ‘simpatico club’ of those days that besides organizing enjoyable
recreation, also undertook the serious business of planting trees around De
Nobili Colllege where earlier was nothing but rocks.
The
people of Mariampura have much to be grateful for. The beautiful church he
built for them was only an external expression of the spiritual church of
Christ that he helped them to become with much toil and prayer and with
particular care for the education of poor students.
Even
after the heart operation he was still an inspiration to the younger Jesuits
with his missionary activities. He used to go from house to house and village
to village in Dhandhuka areas to help the poor to rebuild their houses
and to revive their spirits after the calamitous earthquake of Jan 2001. He
undertook a lot of agro-developmental works especially during the drought hit
years and organized works for food to those in need and helped the poor farmers
with seeds and fertilizers.
Courtesy: email from the Socius
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