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4 unusual facts about Egbert Xavier Kelly


Egbert Xavier Kelly

The Irish Brothers were left to the chapel and a few small rooms while the American De La Salle Christian Brothers were interned, first in a retreat house of the Society of Jesus at Santa Ana, Manila, and then in a Spanish hospital in San Pedro, Makati.

In 1911 Kelly was assigned to the Christian Brothers District of Penang.

Brother Egbert Xavier Kelly, F.S.C., was an Irish De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was kidnapped and then murdered by the retreating Japanese Imperial Forces at the De La Salle College, of which he was President, during the Allied Liberation of Manila during World War II.

During his trip, he went for a brief stay in Colombo, Ceylon after which he proceeded to De La Salle College in Manila.



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