Seeing 104, Saint, Scholar & Brother

Robert Cal Whiting cfc

I consider my life blessed by having been very colse to this man. He is one of those men who are our unknown Saints.

I got to know him at a time when I was very young, 12 & he was near death…

I have his letters written to me when he had been briefly in Australia. I shall be posting them in sequence in the coming days…also I intend to study his life in some detail here….

A great Man and a great Christian Brother.

Contrary to what people say, Brothers like him never wanted to convert anyone, neither did their students love them because of any homophilia on the formers’s sides.

I remain a Hindu and, I believe a firmer one at that, Because God deigned me to live with a Saint.

I was with him daily for over 3 years, every single day for at least 2 hours…

In fact, I suspect that the constellation of Brothers who were there in my schooldays were very holy…not symbolically, but just plain saintly — Bros. Jus Harrison, Jerome Kelly, Joel, Baptist Finn

Thanks Br Dominic Obbens for the photo.