January 2 2013: RAY, Br. Finbarr, S.T.

Brother FINBARR RAY, S.T.

A member of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, died on December 28, 2012 at Holy Cross Hospital from complications of a stroke. He was 88. A native of Greenville, PA, Brother Finbarr served in the Navy in WWII and joined his religious order in 1950. During the course of his missionary work, he served in rural parishes in Alabama and Mississippi. An amateur but skilled archaeologist, Brother Finbarr had collected many artifacts of early and Native American cultures. His most prominent discovery was that of a Spanish fort on the Chattahoochee River, “a fort among the Apalachicolas – the most northern of the Spanish settlements in eastern North America,” which had remained unrecognized for 250 years. The site was later designated a National Historic Landmark. Brother Finbarr is survived by two brothers and two sisters. A viewing will be held at Father Judge Missionary Cenacle, 1733 Metzerott Road, Adelphi, MD on Thursday, January 3 from 10 to 11 a.m., followed by a Mass of the Resurrection at 11 a.m. Mass will again be celebrated and his body interred at Holy Trinity, Alabama on Saturday, January 5, 2013.

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