Professor and Jesuit, Father Béla Somfai dies

Fr. Béla Somfai died on April 6, at René Goupil House, in Pickering, ON. He was 83 and a Jesuit for almost 63 years. Fr. Somfai was born in Hungary where he entered the Society on Sept. 14, 1952.

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