Sunday, May 22, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY : DEATH OF LAST SPANISH BISHOP OF GUAM

MAY 21, 1970
Bishop Olano suffers a heart attack while swimming at Ipao Beach, Tomhom (Tumon)
and dies


LAST Spanish Bishop of Guam dies at the same place the FIRST Spanish Superior of Guam died



Bd Diego Luis de Sanvitores
Martyred on the beach at Tomhom (Tumon)
April 2, 1672

Olano was no longer Bishop of Guam when he died in 1970.  He had resigned from that position in 1945.  He returned to Guam in 1970 to attend the episcopal ordination of the First Chamorro Bishop, Felixberto Flores.

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