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Please do add your tributes to Fr. More or memories of your days at Campion.

My precious and last moments with Fr More

I  met Fr More just a few days or a week before he left us to rest in eternal peace.

I vividly remember that day I went to meet Fr More at Campion School premises where he was staying in one room.  He had no car during those days, he was in-charge of the school Buses.

On meeting him he told  me, “Kanwal I cannot swallow anything solid these days”. He looked very pale and frail. I immediately took him with me to Dr.Chachra in E-5 Arera Colony. After examining him Dr. Chachra advised him to go in for a test known as Endoscopy. We both discussed and fixed the date of test for next day but Dr.Chachra said that will cost around Rs.550. The test was to be done on an empty stomach.

We both walked out of Dr. Chachra’s clinic and when we sat in the car Fr More said,“Kanwal, this man is an idiot, he does not know that many of my ex-students are doctors in Government Hospitals.

"I think he meant Hamidia Hospital”, I said. But I told him it does not matter we will come back tomorrow to this Doctor. I dropped him back at Campion School and told him I would come back the next day.

The next day when I went to pick him up to go to Dr.Chachra for the test, Fr More’s  room was locked from the outside. I enquired about him but no one knew where he had gone. Late in the evening I again went to enquire about him and found him.  I told him, "Father I had come earlier also but you were not in the room?"

He said, “Kanwal when I knew I would find some old students who are doctors at Hamidia Hospital I went by bus in the morning and found Dr. Ganguly and he got my test done completely free!” He told me when you can save money, whether yours or mine, why not?

I told him Father you are exhausted and feeling tired you should have given me a call. He said, “Why should I bother you when you yourself are not well?” ( I had a slipped disc surgery a month or so before).

I enquired about the test he had undergone, but he said nothing to worry I will get the report within a few days. But within a few days I came to know that he passed away to rest in peace.

Actually he did not want to worry me by telling me that he was suffering from CANCER.

MAY GOD BLESS HIM WITH ETERNAL PEACE.
 
How confident and proud he was of his old students. He had immense faith and love for them! One cannot get SUCH A TEACHER AND GUIDE THESE DAYS! We are indeed lucky to have been his students.

I HOPE YOU SHARE THIS WITH EVERY ONE.

FR.MORE/GOD BLESS US.

Contributed by Kanwal Nanda ( 1973 )
kanwal.nanda@yahoo.com.