Archive - Jun 28, 2010

Fr Jose Francisco 'Joefran' Talaban, 43, from Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, is a priest of the Prelature of Infanta, in eastern Luzon. He was in the first group of Filipino seminarians to join the Columban college fromation program in Cebu in 1984 under the direction of your editor. He discovered later that his vocation was to be a missionary as a diocesan priest in a relatively under-developed part of his own country.

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