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Fr. Niall O'Brien: Champion of the poor.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Carla P. Gomez, Bacolod City
FR. NIALL O'Brien, the Irish missionary from the Society of St. Columban who fought for most of his priestly life for justice for the poor and laborers in Negros Occidental and was jailed during the Marcos regime on trumped-up murder charges, died in Pisa, Italy, at about 12:30 a.m., local time, on Wednesday. He was 65.
O'Brien had been in Italy since December, undergoing experimental treatment for a rare blood disease, according to Fr. Sean Coyle, a fellow Columban priest based in Bacolod City.
"Last Sunday, while trying to rise from his wheelchair, he fell and hit his forehead. He underwent emergency treatment some hours later but lapsed into a coma," Coyle said.
Friends of O'Brien gathered at the Redemptorist Church in Bacolod on Wednesday afternoon where a Mass for his eternal repose was held.
Born in Dublin on Aug. 2, 1939, O'Brien entered the Columban seminary in Ireland in 1957 and was ordained in December, 1963. He came to the Philippines the following year and spent most of the rest of his life in the Diocese of Bacolod.
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