Rev Peter O'Flynn SJ
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Peter
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O'Flynn
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SJ
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Ireland
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Melbourne VIC
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Australia
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Boroondara, Melbourne VIC
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Australia
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Biographical Notes
Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
O'Flynn, Peter
Pastor; born Ireland, 2 July 1822; died Melbourne, 3 November 1907, aged 85.
Peter O'Flynn entered the Society at Milltown Park, 15 January 1869, as a secular priest, and from 1875-1879 worked in the College of St Ignatius, San Francisco, doing pastoral work. He arrived in Australia from America, 23 December 1879.
While in Australia he worked for a few years in the parish of Richmond, 1879-80; 1880-81, teaching at St Kilda House, Sydney; 1881-82, at St Patrick's, as a rural missionary; and 1882-83, at Richmond, working in the Hawthorn district. For the rest of his life he lived and worked in the Hawthorn parish. He was superior twice, 1886-91, and 1895-99. He seems to have been minister at other times, and was in charge of various sodalities.
At one time he was a 'persona non grata' to Archbishop Carr of Melbourne, for reasons that are not clear; but the archbishop preached the panegyric at his funeral in glowing terms; so he must have been forgiven. He recalled, among other spiritual virtues, O'Flynn's good works, his wise advice and kindness of heart.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)