Martyr in Congo

Br. Victor Faccin: The Good Works of a Brother

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Br. Victor Faccin - The Good Works of a Xaverian missionary Brother

Born at Villaverla, Vicenza, Italy, on Jan. 7, 1934
Killed at Baraka, D. R. Congo, on Nov. 28, 1964

Br. Victor Faccin (3 years in Congo), Fr. Louis Carrara (2 years), and Fr. John Didone' (6 years), faced the challenges of a civil war of former Congo. Br. Victor was shot at close range just outside of church in Baraka by an army officer. Hearing the commotion, Fr. Carrara, who was hearing confessions on that early afternoon, rushed out of church, and met his death, by the gun of the same general. The killing continued in Fizi, 30 miles north, where Fr. Didone' and diocesan priest Fr. Atanasio Joubert resided. It was Nov. 28th, 1964.

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