Obituary Notice
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Arthur Amor = 1895 - 1970 Fr ARTHUR of the Seven Dolours. (Arthur Leonard Amor). Had he been alive two days ago (1981.01.06), like Frs Fabian Grogan and Oliver Kelly he would have been celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of his having being Professed a Passionist. They and the rest of his classmates, and others who came in contact with him all remember him as being ‘English of the English’. Born a Londonder on 28th January 1895, he got the idea of becoming a Passionist, but the 1st world-war (1914-1918) and Conscription caught up with him, and he served in that war as an officer of the Hon. Artillery Company, a London Regiment, which holds the honour of firing the salute of guns on Royal Occasions, like their Birthday of the monarch, and so on. It speaks much for his character that he kept his Vocation to the C.Ps intact, and with 11 other companions mostly young Irishmen, went to the Novitiate in Enniskillen on Sth December 1919. He had to renew his acquaintace with Latin, and he was then 24 Years old, and the steadiness he put into this job and indeed into all his studies in preparation for the priesthood were an example and inspiration to his classmates. Those early years of Studentship, spent at Sutton, must have been years of trial for him, for following the war of independence and the making of a treaty with England, Ireland fell into the throes of a civil war. Among his classmates political divisions were inevitable, and quite hot arguments often took place. 'It was hard in the circumstances, to heed the advice of the Rule and Regulations to keep off politics in recreation time. Fr. Arthur was devoted to music and was more than often a t the harmonium, the only instrument available to him to satisfy his need in this field of art. A classmate reports of him: "he was a solid religious with a genuine Passionist outlook". Not a'bad thing to have said about one who took St Paul of the Cross as his model in ideals and ideas. As an older religious, he fulfilled various offices in his Province (St Joseph,s - England and Wales) Vicar, Rector (of St Joseph's, av. Hoche, Paris,) and Provincial Consultor. He had the happiness, in 1938, of being at the opening of the crypt in the newly erected Cathedral in Liverpool, and was among those in the GROUP-PHOTO taken on the occasion. He is in the rather straggely Front Row, No. 14, the figure standing just to the right (as one looks at the photo) to that of Fr BENIGNUS DUFFY,CP, (No.3), the outside right man of the three seated. A diabetic in his later years, he never allowed his affliction to interfere with his carrying out of his duties. | God rest him. (This obituary is item 1-3-2-1, serial number 6030)
Source: Obituary Notices, Provincial Archive, St Joseph's Province. Passionist Congregation.