REVEREND JOSEPH CHARLES SCHILLY's Obituary
Reverend Joseph Charles Schilly, 82, passed away on Thursday, October 12, 2006 at Nazareth House, a Catholic nursing facility in San Diego, CA; where he has been cared for since 1999. Father Joe was born on February 14, 1924, in Gyor, Hungary. His college and seminary education were at St. Martin’s Archabbey in Pannonhalma, Hungary. It was there that he was professed and later ordained for the Hungarian Benedictine Congregation on June 27, 1948. From ordination to November of 1956, Father Schilly excerised his ministry in his native land. In December of 1956, he began his ministry in other countries: first in Belgium, then Italy, Austria and Germany. He arrived in the United States in August of 1959, joining the Benedictine community at Woodside Priory in Portola Valley, CA; where he held various school positions (Math teacher, Treasurer, Headmaster, etc.). He became a citizen of this country on January 12, 1965. In 1974, he moved to San Diego as an accountant at the Diocesan Office and was incardinated into that Diocese in June of 1978. Shortly afterwards he began his teaching career in San Bernardino at Aquinas High School shortly after its establishment in that same year. In his 1994 letter requesting retirement from Aquinas he writes with gratitude for his teaching ministry: “I have spent all my priestly life working with teenagers as a religion, mathematics and physics teacher”. There will be Rosary Service for Father Schilly at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 19th at the Bobbitt Memorial Chapel, 1299 E. Highland Ave., San Bernardino, CA. Bishop Gerald Barnes will celebrate the Mass of the Resurrection for Father Schilly at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Cathedral, 27457 N. Arrowhead Ave; San Bernardino on Friday, October 20, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. Interment will follow at Our Lady of Queen of Peace Catholic Cemetery, 3515 E. Washington St. Colton, CA. Father Schilly will be the first Catholic Priest to be buried in the new Catholic Cemetery.
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