Rev. GROGAN,
Patrick SJ
高伯仁神父
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* Birth in Cloghan,
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Death of Father Patrick Grogan, S.J.
R.I.P.
Father Patrick Grogan, SJ, of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, died in St. Paul’s Hospital on
27 February 1980, aged 77.
Father Grogan was born in Cloghan, Offaly, Ireland, on 3 March 1903. He joined the Jesuit
novitiate in Ireland at the end of his university studies in 1925, did his philosophical
studies in a German Jesuit College in Holland, and came to Hong Kong as a Jesuit
scholastic in 1930.
In 1932 he was a member of the first group of Jesuits to teach in Wah Yan College, and Wah
Yan was to be the scene of his activity for 31 of his remaining 48 years. After
theological studies and ordination - 31 July 1936 - in Ireland, he returned to Wah Yan in
1938. He spent the war years partly in mainland China, partly in India, and returned again
to Wah Yah in 1948. He moved to Malaysia in 1962 and served very happily in Assumption
Parish, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, till 1970. Then for the last time, he returned to Wah
Yan.
He was already aged 69; but he returned, not to enjoy honoured retirement, but to play a
vital part in the life of the school. From the beginning of his teaching career he had
taken a deep interest in all the boys of every class and in all their concerns. This
interest, which he never lost, sharpened a remarkable memory. Even in his last years, he
seldom failed to recall the face and the characteristics and the family and the later
career of anyone whom he had known as a student in the 1950s or the 1940s or the 1930s. It
sometimes happened that an old student, on returning to Hong Kong after years overseas,
would find that his family had dispersed and his friends had forgotten him, but Father
Grogan would lift his heart by remembering all about him and his family with interest
undimmed by the passing of years.
In his last years Father Grogan had to cut down his teaching, but he never gave up. To
within a few weeks of his death he still taught a class a day, and took complete charge of
training in verse speaking for the whole school, and he still knew the boys and their ways
as he had always known them. His apostolate was not merely an educational apostolate: it
was also an apostolate of friendship and affection.
His fellow Jesuits will miss him as a good companion, a practiced raconteur, an
exceptionally shrewd adviser and a devoted priest. He will remain in the memories of many
hundreds of Wah Yan students, past and present, as someone who really cared.
The Bishop was chief concelebrant at the Requiem Mass in St. Margaret’s Church on 28
February. Father Gabriel Lam, V.G., in his homily paid eloquent tribute to Father Grogan,
whom he had come to know and revere as his teacher years ago in Wah Yan.
Bishop F.A. Donaghy, M.M., officiated at the graveside in St. Michael’s Cemetery, Happy
Valley.
7 March 1980
耶穌會高伯仁神父
蒙主寵召魂歸天國
本 港 耶 穌 會 會 士 高 伯 仁 神 父 ， 日 前 不 幸 病 逝 銅 鑼 灣 聖 保 祿 醫 院 ， 享 年 七 十 七 歲 。
高 神 父 於 一 九 ０ 三 年 出 生 於 愛 爾 蘭 ， 一 九 二 五 年 都 柏 林 大 學 畢 業 後 進 入 耶 穌 會 修 道 ， 兩 年 後 在 荷 蘭 矢 發 初 願 。
高 神 父 於 三 ０ 年 代 即 被 派 遣 前 來 遠 東 區 服 務 ， 曾 先 後 在 廣 州 、 澳 門 及 香 港 等 地 多 間 中 學 任 教 職 。
過 去 十 年 ， 高 神 父 一 直 任 教 於 港 島 華 仁 書 院 ， 並 任 校 刊 編 輯 、 舊 生 會 顧 問 等 職 。
今 次 噩 耗 傳 來 ， 該 校 教 職 員 生 及 高 神 父 生 前 同 袍 友 好 ， 莫 不 深 表 痛 惜 。
二 月 廿 九 日 下 午 三 時 ， 胡 振 中 主 教 暨 四 十 多 位 神 父 假 跑 馬 地 聖 瑪 加 利 大 堂 為 高 神 父 舉 行 安 息 彌 撒 ， 並 由 林 焯 煒 神 父 於 彌 撒 中 講 道 。
之 後 ， 高 神 父 遺 體 隨 即 安 葬 跑 馬 地 天 主 教
墳 場 。
1980 年 3 月 7 日
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