Solomon Islands - Dominicans/Gizo Diocese
Martin Wallace: 2/3/08
Please remember in your prayers Fr Michael Lomery (brother of Callistus Tavisibatu), who died in Sirovanga, Choiseul, yesterday. I have no further details at this stage. Fr Michael was a priest of Gizo diocese.
4/3/08
Henry Paroi -The following email from Fr Henry Paroi gives us a few details on the death of Fr Michael Lomeri, brother of Fr Callistus:
Dear Martin,
I got back yesterday by canoe from Sirovanga attending later Fr. Michael Lomiri’s funeral. It was a moving although a sad experience to have seen people from all over Sirovanga came to pay their last respect to their first priest of the area. Cally was able to see his brother before he was buried.
It was said that Michael died on infection that began from a sore on his toe. It suddenly got swollen up when eventually the poison got to his lungs and his heart that made it impossible for him to breathe. He could have been saved had they had access to antibiotics, but was too late when they eventually put him on that. Simon was also there.