Jesuit Father Casper J Miller, the oldest missionary who brought Christianity to Nepal’s Tamang tribals and taught hundreds of Nepali students has passed away. He was 90.
According to a message from the Nepal Jesuit Society, Father Miller, after being confined to bed for a little over a month at St Xavier’s Jesuit Community, Jawalakhel, breathed his last on January 15 at 3 pm. He had no major illness.
His mortal remain was consigned to flame at Teku after paying tribute to the departed soul of Miller at St Xavier’s Jesuit Residence, Jawalakhel on Monday, according to the statement.
Father Miller was born on December 13, 1933, at Cleveland in the United States’ Ohio state. He joined the Jesuits on September 2, 1951 and was ordained a priest on March 29, 1964,
He lived and worked in Nepal from 1958 until his death.
Father Miller “was a saintly man .He did everything a Catholic missionary should. May be he was the most evangelical one too,” says Chirendra Satyal, one of his former students some 50 years ago.
