On the morning of 6 October 2022, the Jesuits of Cagayan de Oro transferred the cremated remains of their departed brothers in a religious ceremony at a temporary Jesuit columbarium at the XU Basic Education complex in Pueblo. The Mass for the Dead with a Rite of Inurnment was presided over by Father Rector Ismael Jose III V. Chan-Gonzaga, S.J. and attended by members of the local Jesuit community. 

 

 

The columbarium will serve as “the provisionary resting place of the remains of our dear Jesuit brothers until they will be transferred to the new Jesuit columbarium beside the new University Church in the Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan’s Masterson Campus.” (https://www.xu.edu.ph/xavier-news/194-xu-ateneo-news-sy-2020-2023/5724-statement-on-exhumation-and-transfer-of-the-deceased-jesuits-to-the-new-columbarium-and-campus-of-the-future?fbclid=IwAR1bzE9Dzg8H9NkKP1JGJ4tqKxYEHinQP02Mu0XtA-tvkUQGMUtpy7LdXe8) 

 

With the Jesuit columbarium in Pueblo campus already blessed, friends and relatives of Fathers Gregory Horgan, Leo Welch, Luis Pacquing, John Gordon, Francisco Demetrio, Agatonico Montero, Jaime Neri, Francis Madigan, William Klintworth, William Masterson, William Nicholson, Matthew Fullam, Arthur Shea, Antonio Cuna, Luigi Moggi, Miguel Anselmo Bernad, Calvin Poulin, Estanislao Lagutin, Nil Guillemette, Angel Antonio, James McKeough, and Stanislaus Hsu Pao He, and Mr. Felix Homonlay may now visit their remains there.