Kassian Waldner

Kassian Waldner , also Cassiano Waldner (born August 30, 1941 in St. Valentin auf der Haide , South Tyrol; † November 24, 1998 in Guarapuava , Brazil ) was a Roman Catholic missionary.

Life

Kassian Waldner was born as the second of ten children to Anton Waldner and Klara Blaas. At that time, in 1939/40, his father was a bad guy and had to assert himself against the optants , who formed an overwhelming majority, in the small village of St. Kassian attended elementary school in St. Valentin, the grammar school and lyceum in the Catholic boarding school Vinzentinum in Brixen. After graduating from high school in 1959, he studied theology at the local seminary . After his ordination in Brixen Cathedral by Bishop Joseph Gargitter on June 29, 1964, he became Prefect of the Kassianeum and later of the Vincentium , and then a year as a cooperator in Schluderns .

Since August 1968 he was a missionary in Brazil, together with the South Tyroleans Karl Mayr, Sepp Werth, Toni Höller and Eduard Clementi in Pitanga , Paraná, assigned to the then newly founded diocese of Guarapuava . With around 4,500 km², Pitanga is the largest but also the poorest community in the diocese of the state of Paraná , southern Brazil.

Kassian Waldner initially looked after 50 Christian parishes, then 150. After 16 years of service in Pitanga, he took over the parish of Nova Tebas for a few months . In February 1987 he was called by Bishop Albano Cavallin to be Cathedral Priest of Guarapuava and Vicar General of the diocese.

In 1992 Cavallin, meanwhile Archbishop and Metropolitan of Londrina , entrusted Cassiano Waldner with the management of the diocesan administration. Waldner held this office until the appointment of Giovanni Zerbini as the new bishop of the Diocese of Guarapuava in 1995. Bishop Zerbini reappointed Waldner as vicar general.

In 1995 Kassian Waldner was named Missionary of the Month by the Italian magazine Cuore Amico and was not only recognized as a "builder", but also as an educator: "Without education, no change is possible," he is quoted as saying. He realized the building of a religious education house in Pitanga. With the support of South Tyrol , the house, which is named after Saint Joseph Freinademetz , was ceremoniously handed over to its destination in January 1998 by Bishop Wilhelm Egger . The Parish Milland and the Mission Office of the Diocese of Bozen / Brixen also contribute to the financing of the building . Other buildings by Kassian Waldner are the parish church in Pitanga and the church of St. Anna. He could no longer experience the construction of a new church for the parish "Nossa Senhora Aparecida" in a district of Guarapuava, which he had looked after in addition to his duties as vicar general since 1996.

In mid-November 1998 the missionary Waldner suffered a heart attack and died completely unexpectedly in Guarapuava after a hospital stay in Curitiba. He was buried in the local city cemetery.

Appreciation

In 1999 the Guarapuava City Council named a street after Cassiano Waldner.

Kassian Waldner had been an honorary citizen of the Pitanga community since July 1988.

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ Câmara Municipal de Guarapuava (ed.): LEI N.º 837/1999 . 1999 (Portuguese, pmg.pr.gov.br [PDF; accessed December 2, 2009]). www.pmg.pr.gov.br ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.