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Two Jesuits killed in Moscow |
Two Jesuits, Fathers Otto Messmer and Victor Betancourt,
killed in Moscow
On Saturday 25 October, Father Victor Betancourt,
an Ecuadorian Jesuit working in the St. Thomas Philosophical,
Theological and Historical Institute in Moscow, was killed in his home.
Two days later, after returning from a trip abroad, Father Otto Messmer, Superior of the Russian Region,
was also killed in the same place. On Tuesday 28 October, alarmed by
the fact that he hadn’t heard from the two men, a fellow Jesuit who
lives in another community went to visit them at home. On finding the
dead bodies, he immediately contacted the police.
The police investigations have yet to come to any firm conclusions about cause of these violent deaths.
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The larger of our communities, Loyola House is the site for a number of the Province works. The old novitiate today hosts the Jesuit Provincial Offices, while the sick and elderly are cared for in our Infirmary, in the same house. The community is involved particularly in the pastoral ministry associated with the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Way. The elderly are often happy hosting youths in the Montserrat Vocations’ & Youth Ministry Hosting Centre.
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