Remembering Snehasadan founder Fr Lederle
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- ST Correspondent
Sakal Times
Saturday, 7 June 2014 - 10:48 PM IST
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Pune: Pragat Padavidhar Sanghatana (PPS) will organise a function in Camp on Sunday, June 8, to pay tributes to German Jesuit Fr Matthew Lederle, founder of Snehasadan Institute for the Study of Religion, on the occasion of his 28th death anniversary.
The function will be attended by Pune Bishop Thomas Dabre and Pune Jesuit Provincial Fr Bhausaheb Sansare.
Bishop Dabre will celebrate mass at St Xavier Church, Camp at 4 pm. It will be followed by a function at Fr Barco hall, near St Xavier Church. A souvenir on the life and works of Fr Lederle will also be released, said a statement issued by PPS leaders JD Adhav and Pratap Pandit. Fr Lederle, along with Fr Guy Deleury, a French Jesuit and Achyutrao Apte, a social worker and a founder of the Vidyarthi Sahayyak Samiti, had established Snehasadan Ashram, an institute for interreligious dialogue in 1969.
After his arrival in India from Germany and ordination as a priest, Fr Lederle had chosen Pune for his work. He learnt the local language, started interacting with local people and started inter-religious dialogue to help people of various communities to appreciate and understand each other.
