Simon Manning - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:14:23 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Simon Manning - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Man who lay dead for weeks has cathedral funeral https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/03/15/man-lay-dead-weeks-wgtn-cathedral-funeral/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:54:30 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=81232 Jimmy Grant, 78, who may have died as long ago as January, was farewelled during a Sunday Mass at Wellington's Catholic cathedral on March 13. His body was found at his Mulgrave St apartment, near Parliament, on March 2. When his body was found, police also found a newspaper, a Bible and Mr Grant's cat's Read more

Man who lay dead for weeks has cathedral funeral... Read more]]> Jimmy Grant, 78, who may have died as long ago as January, was farewelled during a Sunday Mass at Wellington's Catholic cathedral on March 13.

His body was found at his Mulgrave St apartment, near Parliament, on March 2.

When his body was found, police also found a newspaper, a Bible and Mr Grant's cat's ashes in an urn.

The cathedral parish offered to have the funeral service at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, as Mr Grant lived in their area, even though it is thought that he did not attend Mass.

Funeral director Simon Manning said " . . . [T]he priest in charge, Father James Lyons, said why don't we combine it with Sunday Mass and try and engage their parish community with a little bit of reality about how people live and how they die."

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