Rev James Power SJ
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Rev
First Name:
James
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Power
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SJ
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Glasgow
Country of Birth:
Scotland
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Sevenhill SA
Country of Death:
Australia
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Sevenhill SA
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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:
Power, James
Teacher; born Glasgow, Scotland, 21 April 1852; died Sevenhill, South Australia, 28 October 1884, aged 32.
James Power arrived in Victoria, Australia, at the age of ten, and entered the Society at Sevenhill, 8 January 1873. After the noviciate he began rhetoric studies and theology.
In 1880 he was sent St Ignatius' College, Riverview, and from 1880-83, was at St Aloysius' College (St Kilda House), teaching physics, debating and prefecting. He returned to Riverview, 1883-84. Enjoying mechanics, he did a great deal of useful work in the early days at Riverview. However, his long-standing ill health became worse. He returned to Sevenhill in 1884, died there the same year, and was buried in the crypt.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)