Father Konrad Fuchs, who has died aged 109, was reputedly the world's oldest living Roman Catholic priest; he was also the second oldest living German and one of only eight known remaining German veterans of the First World War.
It was following his own traumatising experience as an infantry soldier on the front line that he received a strong calling to the priesthood, one that he had already felt in boyhood. Three of his brothers fell at the front, and Fuchs often reflected that he was only saved from a similar fate after a head injury meant he was unable to fight in a particularly bloody battle in which many of his comrades lost their lives...
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Supposedly, Fr Nicholaus Kao, a Trappist in Hong Kong, is the oldest living Catholic priest.
Old man at http://zenshenzhen.blogspot.com/2005/10/old-man-it-seems-someone-last-night.html and Last goodbyes to German priest who saw three centuries at
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8139
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