Father José Morales M., Delegate Provincial of the Sector of Spain, informs us of the return to the Lord of Father Joaquín Alegrías Joya on Monday the 4^th July 2016 at Almeria (Spain) at the age of 72, of which 37 years of missionary life in Malawi and in Spain.

Father Alegrias went to Mzuzu in 1972 as a Fidei Donum priest. He went back to the same diocese in 1986 as a missionary in various places such as Mzambazi, Kaseye and Nkhate Bay. He left Malawi in 2007.