Eminent Theologian, Fr. Aloysius Peiris S.J. Passes Away
An Eminent Theologian, Rev. Fr. Aloysius Peiris S. J. Passes Away Fr. Aloysius Peiris S. J. who passed away recently was a student at St. Aloysius College, Galle from 1949 (at around the age of fifteen) to 1953. He resided first at the College Boarding House and thereafter at the St. Xavier's Seminary, Kalegana. Some of the Jesuit priests with whom he came into contact were, the Rector, Rev. Fr. Vito Perniola, historian and Pali Scholar; Rev. Fr. S. G. Perera, historian; Rev. Fr. Aloysius de Mattia, his spiritual advisor; Rev. Fr. Cyril Ponnamperuma, world renowned scientist, who was then a Sub Prefect; Rev. Fr. L. Cramer, Botanist; Rev. Fr. Paul Casperz, an Oxford Scholar; Rev. Fr. Thomas Kuriacose, then a Sub Prefect; Rev. Fr. Julius Pogany (then learning English along with us and later teaching Physics to us in the HSC Form); and a number of other well-known Belgian, Neapolitan and Ceylonese Jesuits. Fr. Aloy was a few years ahead of us at the College,...