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  Nightmares at St Teresa’s Boys High School   Some of my former classmates (61) have been reminiscing after Bill de Silva shared a few photos of the St Teresa’s Boys’ School and the St Teresa’s Church in Eastleigh. Bill went back there after 61 years spent in many parts of the world.   For some of the boys, St Teresa’s was hell, for others it was some kind of heaven, and for others yet it was OK, sort of. However, most people considered it second class to the “Goan school” aka Dr Ribeiro’s Goan School.   Personally, I always thought that the headmaster and parish priest Father Patrick Hannan was a bit of an enigma: most parents loved the guy, quite a few of my friends thought he was a sadist (I learnt that word many years after I left school at the age 12) and yet others treated him as a saint.   Worst of all there are boys who were sexually abused by Hannon. Many have taken this awful secret to their grave. Others have had to face it every...

  The late Wilfred Maciel (brother Bwana Karani Mervyn) with the then Finance Minister Mwai Kibaki By  John Ikani (Heritage Times)   Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, who served as the country’s third President has died at the age of 90. His death was announced Friday by his successor, incumbent Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who described him as inspirational. “It is a sad day for us as a country. We have lost a great leader,” Kenyatta said in an address on state television. “President Kibaki will forever be remembered as a gentleman in Kenya’s politics. A brilliant debater whose eloquence, wit and charm won the day time and time again.” He ordered a period of national mourning until sunset on the day Kibaki is to be buried, with all flags to be flown at half-mast. Kibaki served as President from 2002 to 2013, winning elections against Kenyatta and ending four decades of one-party rule. As a leader, Kibaki, one of the country’s richest men, ushered in economic refor...

 

  Perhaps one of the most famous sculptures in the world, the Pieta by Michelangelo in a chapel in St Peter's Rome. Mary with the body of her son after his crucifixion.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvjtzKUaq-s&authuser=0 Click above for a guided tour of the Vatican