Rev Killian Coll

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Killian

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Coll

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Catalonia

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Spain

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Sydney PenrithLinane Vol 2
Sydney WollongongLinane Vol 2
Sydney St Benedict's1860Linane Vol 2
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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 64:

Coll, Killian, Spanish
Colourful Sydney Character
Killian or Kilian? The records give the double 'l'. And was he a brother of Emilianus, the worthy physician in W.A.? Again we're not sure, but the place of origin was the same: Catalonia. The place of education was Subiaco, Italy, which suggests a link with the OSBs. But authorities are agreed that he was not a Benedictine. He arrived in Sydney on the 'Sea Nymph' on 31 March 1847 (Shipping records). Somewhere in the Journal of the A.C.H.S. his stormy career is described. Penrith, Wollongong and St. Benedict's are given as the stations during the Sydney stay. He is reputed to have been dismissed in 1860 or before for making personal attacks on all and sundry. He founded a College at Randwick - St. Kilian's! According to the Benedictine historian, Dom Eugene Perez, he turned up in Perth in 1860, staying one year and having no association with New Norcia. The trail leads then to St. Vincent's, Pennsylvania, where he tried to enter the Benedictines - without success. He then went to France and Rome - and that's the last word on the 'stirrer' in Sydney.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 8)
Ref.: St. Mary's Archives, Sydney, per Mgr. C. Duffy, Archivist, and New Norcia Archives, per Dom Eugene Perez OSB.