German SVD missionary priest, who served PH for over 5 decades, dies in Germany
Father Rudolf Holzgartner, a German missionary priest who spent over five decades forming generations of Filipino priests at Saint Augustine Seminary in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, has passed away in Germany. The local bishop lauded him as a "model."
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