Jesuit priest João Felgueiras died on July 3 at the age of 105

Father João Felgueiras, a Jesuit priest described as a national hero of East Timor, died on Friday, July 3. He arrived in East Timor in 1971 and remained to support the local population through the period of Indonesian occupation between 1975 and 1999.

The Jesuit superior Joaquim Sarmento spoke at Felgueiras's bedside, expressing the sentiment that if Felgueiras did not enter heaven, no one else would.