Pacelli High School hosts Fr. John Heagle

Portage County native Brother James Miller will be commemorated on the 30th anniversary of his being killed while doing mission work in Guatemala.

This year's event to remember Miller will be different, however, because it is the first event since he was designated a "servant of God," placing him in the second of four steps to becoming a saint.

The commemoration will be today at Pacelli High School on Maria Drive.

Miller, who grew up east of Stevens Point in Ellis, was teaching at a school in Huehuetenango in northeast Guatemala when he was gunned down by Guatemalan military officers on Feb. 13, 1982, said the Rev. Tom Lindner, of Newman University Catholic Parish.The Rev. John Heagle, a priest of the Diocese of La Crosse, will be the keynote speaker today and will talk about "Justice Rising: The Cost of the Discipleship."
continue at Wausau Daily Herald

some background of Brother James Miller.  It's unclear why they would invite Fr. Heagle to speak on the matter...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My guess would be because of the organizer quoted.

Mark Montague said...

Father Heagle served as a parish priest in Central Wisconsin in the late 1970's. It's likely he knew Brother James Miller.