{"id":2101,"date":"2013-06-03T03:10:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T01:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.wordpress.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2013-06-03T03:10:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T01:10:27","slug":"tragic-death-of-martinus-balemans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/tragic-death-of-martinus-balemans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic death of Martinus Balemans"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/martin_balemans.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2110 alignleft\" alt=\"Martin_balemans\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/martin_balemans.png?resize=169%2C387\" width=\"169\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/martin_balemans.png?w=169&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/martin_balemans.png?resize=131%2C300&amp;ssl=1 131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>Dear brothers and sisters,<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>It is with great sorrow that I announce to you the tragic death of our brother <strong>Martin Balemans<\/strong> which occurred this afternoon.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Martin went swimming late morning as he usually does. At about 12:30 he was passing through Tamale town with his driver. He asked his driver to stop in town so that he buys something. They packed at normal packing place and Martin wanted to cross the road. He took care to pass at the pedestrian grossing. All the cars stopped to give way, but a young man who was riding a motorbike did not stop and accidentally hit\u00a0 Martin who fell, hitting his head on the asphalt. <\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>He was immediately transported to the Tamale teaching hospital. This happened at about 12:40. I was informed at around 13:00, and I rushed to the Hospital. The diocesan bursar arrived there before me and anointed Martin.\u00a0 When I got there, Martin was not conscious, and there were over 10 Doctors and many Nurses around him doing all they could to save him.\u00a0Unfortunately, at about 14:00 Martin was declared died. There were a good number of priests present when he died.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>We shall be meeting tomorrow and the days to come to plan for the funeral. We shall keep you informed as regards to the funeral arrangements. Let us keep our dear Martin in our prayers.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Our sincere condolences go to his family and friends. We shall all miss him a lot.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Yours in sorrow,<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Dominic Apee<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Provincial of Ghana\/Nigeria<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear brothers and sisters, It is with great sorrow that I announce to you the tragic death of our brother Martin Balemans which occurred this afternoon. Martin went swimming late morning as he usually does. At about 12:30 he was passing through Tamale town with his driver. He asked his driver to stop in town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}