Fr John Griffin, a Columban ordained in 1950, worked for many years in Zambales. He was later assigned as a missionary in Chile. At present he works in Lower Hutt, near Wellington, the capital of his native New Zealand.
By Fr. John Griffin, ssc
One day in 1942 the whole school assembly at St. Kevin’s College in Oamaru, New Zealand sat riveted as two priests told of their lives as missionaries in Korea. More exciting for us young lads, their years in faraway Asia had recently included being held as prisoners of war by the Japanese who had finally released then for repatriation.
