ACKNOWLEDGING JOHN BOSMAN MSC, 80.
John Bosman was born on April 6th 1940, a month before the Nazi invasion and occupation of the Netherlands, May 1940
The Bosman family migrated to Australia in the 1950s, settling in Adelaide.
John made his novitiate in 1959, profession on February 26th 1960, last month celebrating his diamond jubilee.
He studied at the Sacred Heart Monastery, Canberra, and was sent to Rome for studies at the Gregorian University. He and Barry Brundell, and former Superior General, Michael Curran, were ordained in the Scholasticate chapel in Via Aventina in 1966.
John completed a doctoral thesis in Moral Theology on St Gregory the Great.
In his more than 50 years of priestly ministry, he taught Moral Theology at the Yarra Theological Union, has served in parishes including Henley Beach and Randwick. Also at Randwick, he was a chaplain at the Prince of Wales Hospital. He has specialised in Breath and Breathing Studies (which must contribute to his ability to play the didgeridoo). His older brother, Henk MSC, is at the Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington.
In recent years, John has been stationed at the Chevalier Resource Centre, Kensington.
