On the evening of 22 July, 2021, the SVD community held an in-house Mass to commemorate the passing away of one of their confreres Fr. Matthias Christian SVD (1941-2020).
Fr Matthias had described himself as “a Catholic priest and missionary who lived more than forty years in study and dialogue with Chinese culture and people. Though I am an Austrian and love my country, I feel at the same time a deep concern for China, its people, and its great tradition as if it were my own homeland.”
Fr Matthias began his mission in Taiwan in 1968.
In 2008, he was called to Macau to be professor at the University of St Joseph.
He retired to Taiwan in 2016 and passed away on 22 July 2020 in Taipei.
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