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About Help Contact login Rev Paul Cleary SJ Title: Rev First Name: Paul Middle Names: Jude Preferred Name: Surname: Cleary Order: SJ Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1942 Place of Birth: Clare SA Country of Birth: Australia Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 09-Jun-1996 Place of Death: Norwood SA Country of Death: Australia Date of Burial: 1996 Place of Burial: Sevenhill SA Country of Burial: Australia Find A Grave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191707614 FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017: Cleary, Paul Pastor, teacher, potter; born Clare, South Australia, 5 October 1942; died Norwood, South Australia, 9 June 1996, aged 53. Paul Cleary was an old scholar of St Ignatius' College, Norwood, and entered the Society, 1 February 1962. After the noviciate he studied philosophy at Loyola College, Watsonia, and subsequently gained a Higher Diploma of Secondary Teaching (Art and Craft) at the Melbourne Teachers' College, 1967-70. Regency followed at St Aloysius' College, Milson's Point, 1971-72, teaching art, craft and religion. After theology at the Jesuit Theological College, Parkville, Victoria, he was director of the Manresa People's Centre attached to the parish of Hawthorn, working mainly with young people. Tertianship at Campion College, Kew, followed. He resumed teaching, first at Kostka Hall, Brighton, 1982-4, then at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, 1985-86. Unhappy with the daily tensions involved with prefecting and teaching boys, Cleary moved into parish ministry, as superior and parish priest, at Sevenhill, South Australia, 1987-92, and Norwood, 1993-96. As a superior he cared well for his men. Cleary was a gifted potter, photographer, craftsman and drawer, and was a good teacher of these crafts. He was a man adamant and passionate about the rightness of things, and determined to have that rightness made real. He was a humble man, but with a keen sense of justice. He designed the stained glass window in St Michael's Church, Clare, and in St Aloysius' Church, Sevenhill, and refurbished St Michael's. After a short struggle with cancer, he died and was buried in the crypt at Sevenhill, an appropriate gesture because of his great love of the history of the Austro-Hungarian Jesuits in South Australia. He did much research into this early history of the province, researching the archives in Austria and Ireland, and was most willing to share that knowledge with others. Among his gifts were his great loyalty, his artistic skill, his outstanding ability as a youth worker, his shrewd appreciation of people and his very real goodness and sensitivity. (Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Paul

Middle Names:

Jude

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Cleary

Order:

Date of Birth:

05-Oct-1942

Place of Birth:

Clare SA

Country of Birth:

Australia

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

09-Jun-1996

Place of Death:

Norwood SA

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1996

Place of Burial:

Sevenhill SA

Country of Burial:

Australia

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191707614

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Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Cleary, Paul

Pastor, teacher, potter; born Clare, South Australia, 5 October 1942; died Norwood, South Australia, 9 June 1996, aged 53.

Paul Cleary was an old scholar of St Ignatius' College, Norwood, and entered the Society, 1 February 1962. After the noviciate he studied philosophy at Loyola College, Watsonia, and subsequently gained a Higher Diploma of Secondary Teaching (Art and Craft) at the Melbourne Teachers' College, 1967-70. Regency followed at St Aloysius' College, Milson's Point, 1971-72, teaching art, craft and religion.

After theology at the Jesuit Theological College, Parkville, Victoria, he was director of the Manresa People's Centre attached to the parish of Hawthorn, working mainly with young people. Tertianship at Campion College, Kew, followed. He resumed teaching, first at Kostka Hall, Brighton, 1982-4, then at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, 1985-86. Unhappy with the daily tensions involved with prefecting and teaching boys, Cleary moved into parish ministry, as superior and parish priest, at Sevenhill, South Australia, 1987-92, and Norwood, 1993-96. As a superior he cared well for his men.

Cleary was a gifted potter, photographer, craftsman and drawer, and was a good teacher of these crafts. He was a man adamant and passionate about the rightness of things, and determined to have that rightness made real. He was a humble man, but with a keen sense of justice. He designed the stained glass window in St Michael's Church, Clare, and in St Aloysius' Church, Sevenhill, and refurbished St Michael's.

After a short struggle with cancer, he died and was buried in the crypt at Sevenhill, an appropriate gesture because of his great love of the history of the Austro-Hungarian Jesuits in South Australia. He did much research into this early history of the province, researching the archives in Austria and Ireland, and was most willing to share that knowledge with others. Among his gifts were his great loyalty, his artistic skill, his outstanding ability as a youth worker, his shrewd appreciation of people and his very real goodness and sensitivity.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Rev Paul Cleary SJ

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