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Please join us in congratulating all the Redemptorist priests and brothers of our province who are celebrating major anniversaries in 2019. Their names are listed below. Professed as Redemptorists Ordained to the Priesthood 65 years (1954) 60 years (1959) Father John Gauci Father John Gauci Father Francis Sullivan Father Francis Sullivan Brother DeSales Zimpfer Father Arthur Wendel 60 years (1959) 50 years (1969) Father James Brennan Father Gordon Cannoles Archbishop Edward Gilbert Father Patrick Flynn Father Joseph Krastel Father Edward Lynch Father Francis Nelson Father Louis Olive 40 years (1979) Father Gerard Chylko 50 years (1969) Father Michael Sergi Father Charles Coury Father Karl Esker 25 years (1994) Father Henry Sattler Father Bruce Lewandowski Father John Murray II 40 years (1979) Father Peter Sousa Father James Cascione Cardinal Joseph Tobin Father John Collins Father Glenn Parker Father John Tizio 25 years (1994) Father Matthew Allman Save Save Save

Father Francis Gargani, C.Ss.R. Father Francis Gargani, C.Ss.R., was honored June 4 with OneSpirit Learning Alliance’s Service to Humanity Award. Since 2005 Father Gargani has presented an annual seminar on Catholicism for the New York City-based organization’s interfaith seminary.

Brother John Bosco Hammond, C.Ss.R., died on May 25, 2019, at age 78. He had been a member of the St. Clement’s Mission House Community in Ephrata, Pa., since June 2015. Rollin William Edward Hammond was born on October 5, 1940, in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Lester and Lucy (Cosgrove).