Letter #49, 2021, Thursday, July 8: Fr Swamy
Letter #49, 2021, Thursday, July 8: Fr Swamy
A screengrab of the funeral service for
Father Stan Swamy
, the Jesuit social activist who died on July 5 in a Mumbai hospital while he was still under detention accused of collaborating with terrorist activities. (He always denied the accusation.)
Below, a Jesuit priest visits Father Swamy in Mumbai’s Holy Family Hospital at the end of May. Fr. Swamy became so sick that prison authorities agreed to transfer him to the hospital.
The map below shows the location of Jharkhand State, where Fr. Stan lived and worked.
The bottom photograph is a screenshot from a video. Fr. Stan is wearing dark glasses, sitting among the people he spent his entire life defending.