CATHOLIC NEWS OF THE WEEK . Saturday, 12 May 2012
First funeral for all the colony remembered

HONG KONG (SE): The funeral of Father (Joseph) Burghignoli is recorded as the first big function affecting not only the whole vicariate of Hong Kong, but also the whole colony, as his biographer notes that never before had so many non-Catholics been seen inside a Catholic church in the colony.

It was certainly the first big function to be held in the cathedral, the biographer of the Italian missionary records.

The priest from the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), who died on 2 January 1892, was born in Bologna, Italy, and spent the whole of his priestly life in the British colony.

The PIME society held a...

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