{"id":2216,"date":"2013-06-12T21:44:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.wordpress.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2013-06-12T21:44:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T19:44:36","slug":"georg-messer-died-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/12\/georg-messer-died-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Georg Messer died in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><b><i><i><strong>Georg Messer<\/strong><\/i> died on the 12<sup>th<\/sup> June 2013, at the Hospital of Munich, Germany He was 82 years old of which 56 of missionary life<\/i><\/b><i> <b>in Malawi and in Germany.<\/b><\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><b><i>RIP<\/i><\/b><i><\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/georg_messer.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2217 alignright\" alt=\"Georg_Messer\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/georg_messer.jpg?resize=163%2C232\" width=\"163\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/georg_messer.jpg?w=567&amp;ssl=1 567w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/georg_messer.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a>Our confrere died today, 12.06.2013, in a Hospital of Munich. He had suffered a heart attack. He will be buried on Thursday, 20.06.2013 on the Western Cemetery in M\u00fcnchen.<\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>Georg Messer was born in Kaltenbaum near Regensburg on 09.08.1930. After completing his secondary education with \u201aAbitur&#8217; in Regensburg, he began his formation with the White Fathers in Trier. He did his Novitiate and Theology in s&#8217;Heerenberg. There he took his Missionary Oath on 24.07.1956. He did his last year of theology in Montiviot\/Scotland. In Galashiels\/Scotland he was ordained priest on 16.05.1957.<\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>After his ordination he had to serve as teacher in our minor seminary of Zaitzkofen for one year. On 12.11.1958 he was able to travel to Malawi, where he lived and worked as a missionary for 56 years. Often he had to serve as a teacher in minor seminaries (Kasina and Mtendere). But he also spent many fruitful years as parish priest in several parishes of the diocese of Dedza. In July 2012 he returned to Germany and joined your community in M\u00fcnchen.<\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>Fr. Rolf Wigger, M.Afr, Sector Secretary<\/i><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georg Messer died on the 12th June 2013, at the Hospital of Munich, Germany He was 82 years old of which 56 of missionary life in Malawi and in Germany. RIP Our confrere died today, 12.06.2013, in a Hospital of Munich. He had suffered a heart attack. He will be buried on Thursday, 20.06.2013 on [&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-2216","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\/2216","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=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}