Fifty Years of Service to the Missions
Fr. Blane Grein, OFM celebrated 50 years as a priest in June, 2012. Fr. Blane has devoted almost his entire priestly life to mission work. A year after his ordination in 1962, Fr. Blane began work in Zuni, New Mexico at the St Anthony Indian Mission. In 1965 he was assigned to the Philippines. There he served for ten years at several different parishes on the Island of Leyte. He returned to the States in 1975 and did pastoral work in Roswell, NM, Meramora, IL and Port Sulfer, LA.
In 1978, Fr. Blane was assigned to Our Lady of Fatima in Chinle, AZ where he still serves…34 years later
Read about his fascinating life in the Navajo Times. http://navajotimes.com/entertainment/2012/0612/062112jub.php
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