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About Help Contact login Rev Gerald Kennedy SJ Title: Rev First Name: Gerald Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Kennedy Order: SJ Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1889 Place of Birth: Nenagh, Co Tipperary Country of Birth: Ireland Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 06-Feb-1949 Place of Death: Sydney NSW Country of Death: Australia Date of Burial: 1949 Place of Burial: Gore Hill NSW Country of Burial: Australia Find A Grave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/300549575 FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017: Kennedy, Gerald Pastor; born Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland, 24 June 1889; died Sydney, 6 February 1949, aged 59. Gerald Kennedy served in the RAMC during World War I in Flanders and on a ship in the Atlantic. He entered the Society, 31 August 1919, at Tullamore with a medical degree, and after philosophy at Milltown Park, 1923-25, and theology at Ore Place, Hastings and Fourvières, 1925-28, completed tertianship at St Beuno's, 1928-29. He was then sent to the Hong Kong mission, 1929-45, and spent these years at Ricci Hall, the university residence, the seminary or Wah Yan College, lecturing and teaching, as well as doing pastoral work, but he never learnt the Chinese language. He was popular with the students in the seminary, entertaining them with his charm. He gave the Jesuits hints on how to be successful classroom teachers, and wrote a text book in chemistry and physics while at Wah Yan. He spent 1934 with the Jesuits at Shanghai, in Gonzaga College. From 1938 he worked with refugees in a hospital in Canton. Medical supplies were scarce, but he discovered a partial cure for cholera. He worked as rice-forager, money collector and spiritual guide to the sisters who ran the hospital. During 1941 he was at St Theresa's hospital, Kowloon, but he was worn out. He had fought the good fight. As a result, he was recalled to Ireland where he recovered his former vigour sufficiently to give retreats in Galway, 1945-46, and did pastoral work at Tullamore. He was sent to Australia and the parish of Lavender Bay, 1948-49, where he worked for six months in the chapel of Star of the Sea, Milson's Point. He was remembered for having a dry, searching humour, and a mixture of kindly trust and breeziness. (Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Gerald

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Kennedy

Order:

Date of Birth:

24-Jun-1889

Place of Birth:

Nenagh, Co Tipperary

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

06-Feb-1949

Place of Death:

Sydney NSW

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1949

Place of Burial:

Gore Hill NSW

Country of Burial:

Australia

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/300549575

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

Pastor; born Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland, 24 June 1889; died Sydney, 6 February 1949, aged 59.

Gerald Kennedy served in the RAMC during World War I in Flanders and on a ship in the Atlantic. He entered the Society, 31 August 1919, at Tullamore with a medical degree, and after philosophy at Milltown Park, 1923-25, and theology at Ore Place, Hastings and Fourvières, 1925-28, completed tertianship at St Beuno's, 1928-29.

He was then sent to the Hong Kong mission, 1929-45, and spent these years at Ricci Hall, the university residence, the seminary or Wah Yan College, lecturing and teaching, as well as doing pastoral work, but he never learnt the Chinese language. He was popular with the students in the seminary, entertaining them with his charm. He gave the Jesuits hints on how to be successful classroom teachers, and wrote a text book in chemistry and physics while at Wah Yan.

He spent 1934 with the Jesuits at Shanghai, in Gonzaga College. From 1938 he worked with refugees in a hospital in Canton. Medical supplies were scarce, but he discovered a partial cure for cholera. He worked as rice-forager, money collector and spiritual guide to the sisters who ran the hospital. During 1941 he was at St Theresa's hospital, Kowloon, but he was worn out. He had fought the good fight.

As a result, he was recalled to Ireland where he recovered his former vigour sufficiently to give retreats in Galway, 1945-46, and did pastoral work at Tullamore. He was sent to Australia and the parish of Lavender Bay, 1948-49, where he worked for six months in the chapel of Star of the Sea, Milson's Point. He was remembered for having a dry, searching humour, and a mixture of kindly trust and breeziness.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Rev Gerald Kennedy SJ

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