MacInnis, and J .P.E.O’I-Ianley, all native to the St. Peters area, have worked and ministered within various countries all over the world.

It is known that Father Thomas Gorman was a city missionary in Oakland California. The evidence that he remembered St. Peters fondly is reflected in the poetry he wrote about his home community.‘ Monsignor J .P.E. O’Hanley studied at St. Dunstan’s College, Laval University (BA) in Montreal, and in the Angelicum University in Rome where he obtained a PHD in Philosophy. He taught at St. Dunstans for a period of fourteen years, but is perhaps best remembered for his translation of Grenier’s Cursus Philosophiae from Latin into English. His work in Thomistic Philosophy has been used by many universities in North America and won him international acclaim as an author and scholar. He celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in St. Peters Church on May 2nd, 1982. He died on January 25, 1986, and is buried in the St. Peters Bay Cemetery.

Daniel O’Hanley, of Monticello, worked as a Catholic Missionary in Managua, Nicaragua. His story was a tragic one. Caught in the midst of an attempted robbery, Daniel was murdered on July 3, 1991. His remains were brought home to the Island and were buried in the St. Margaret’s Cemetery. (56)

Daniel O’Hanley at a house party in Greenwich. (Frances MacDonald playing the fiddle) Photo courtesy of Lillian and Stephen Petrie

g— See Father German’s two pieces of poetry written about St. Peters following this chapter.