Track 1: Growing up in Buttevant, Co Cork in the 1950s and 60s. Entering the Christian Brothers Noviciate in 1967. He details his time there as a postulant. Track 2: Appointment to Argentina in 1975. Assignment to Buenos Aires. He discusses his time teaching in different areas during a time of great instability. Track 3: The great differences between the rich and the poor. Re-assignment to Montevideo in Uruguay. Meeting great challenges and crises in his own life. Track 4: Re-assigned to La Rioja in Argentina working with local clergy and in schools. Track 5: Re-assigned to Paraguay in 1997, where he worked in prisons with child prisoners, returning in 2002.
Br Bob McAteer, CFC
€7.00 – €15.00
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Additional information
Type: | Disk, MP3 |
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Audio series: | IMU Missionary Stories Project |
Bitrate: | 160 kbps |
Download time limit: | 48 hours |
File size(s): | 29.73 MB, 19.91 MB, 11.21 MB, 8.62 MB |
Number of files: | 3 |
Product ID: | CDIMU01-067 |
Subject: | A Missionary in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay |
Recorded by: | Maurice O'Keeffe – Irish Life and Lore |