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Fr Krohn set for release from jail

FR JUAN Maria Krohn, the Spanish priest who attempted to attack the Pope with a knife while he was at the Marian shrine of Fatima on May 12 1982, is due for conditional release from prison. Fr Krohn has served half his sentence of six years and six months, plus a further six months for insulting the judges.
Most of his sentence has been spent in the prison at Alcoentre near Santarem. When he was in the Penitenciaria in Lisbon, it was reported that Fr Krohn wished to marry the mother of a fellow prisoner with whom he had made friends during the visiting hours.
It is now believed that he will be expelled from Portugal and sent back to Spain from where his father, an army officer, and his mother came to see their son' regularly.
An unhealthy problem
THE TRIAL of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, one of the leaders of the 1974 revolution, accused with over 40 others, including Fr Manuel Crespo, a Vincentian priest, of belonging to a terrorist group which has planted bombs and killed people, goes on relentlessly. Fr Crespo, thought to have been the liaison between the small, legal anarchist party and the large illegal organisation, has been put in solitary confinement after minor infringements of the prison rules.
Among the witnesses he has called in his defence are Bishop Julio Tavares Rebimhas of Oporto and Bishop Manuel da Silva Martins of Setubal, five other unnamed priests and the Superior General of the vincentians, Fr Jean-Paul Marsaud.
In the meantime, the Canadian General Assistant of the Vincentians, Fr Hugo Benfante has arrived from Paris and seen Fr Crespo who is banned from daily Mass and cannot choose a confessor.
In an interview with the Diurio de Nolicias, Fr Benfante said that he feared for Fr Crespo's health and that the conditions in which the prisoner was being held was an infringement of human rights.
He considered that the measures taken towards the priest were due to his evangelical option for the weak and the poor. Many of the accused are locked in their cells for 23 hours a day since ten of the presumed terrorists escaped from prison in September and some are on hunger strike. It is not known how long the trial will last, or whether Fr Crespo and his fellow prisoners will be allowed more liberty.
Fatima growth
RELIGIOUS HOUSES continue to proliferate at Fatima, the shrine to which hundreds of thousands of pilgrims come during the summer months. Now a large complex for the disabled is to he set up by the "Pius Union of Silent Workers of the Cross", which was founded in Rome hs Mgr Luigi Novarese in 1950.
The foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Eduardo Cagnon, who concelebrated Mass in the Chapel of the Apparitions with 22 priests including two who were paralysed.
11 is hoped that the new complex will serve not only the spiritual needs of the disabled, but also there will be sections for the rehabilitation of physically and mentally sick.
The Carmelite convent in Fatima has just celebrated its golden jubilee. Founded shortly after official recognition had been given to the apparitions of Our Lady, it was one of the first religious houses to be opened at the shrine and has always had sufficient vocations.
New cathedral
AROUND £2 million has been spent on rebuilding the cathedral in Angra do Heroism° on the island of Terceira in the Azores, which was very badly damaged by an earthquake in 1980, and then gutted by a fire which broke out in the ruins.
The new church was inaugurated by Cardinal Antonio Ribeiro, Patriarch of Lisbon. The 450th anniversary of the foundation of the diocese was also commemorated.
The previous cathedral was filled with fine baroque altars, all destroyed in the fire, so the interior is now very austere, though the Renaissance facade has been retained.
Mozambique deaths
ALTHOUGH as reported in my last letter, 12 religious, priests and nuns were released by Renamo, a terrorist group in Mozambique, the Bishop of Tete, Mgr Paulo Mandlate, has stated that the two Jesuit priests, one a Portuguese citizen, Padre Silva Moreira, the other Mozambican, Padre Joao de Deus Uanteda, who were kidnapped on October 30 and who were believed to have been released, have, according to Jesuit sources in Lisbon, been murdered and their bodies burnt in the bush near their mission house. This, however, has been denied by the President of Mozambique.




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