Jožef Kerec
Male, Deceased Person
1892 – 1974
Who was Jožef Kerec?
Jožef Kerec was the first Slovene Salesian missionary in China.
Kerec spent his childhood in the Prosečka Vas, Prekmurje, where his family was from. Before departing for China, Kerec was politically active in Prekmurje. On 17 August 1919, a few days after Prekmurje was occupied by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, he spoke at a big public rally in Beltinci in support of Slovenia and the Kingdom.
As a missionary, Jožef Kerec departed to Macau in 1921, arrived there on 18 August 1921 and had his very first mass at all in Macau on 26 June 1923. He also worked in Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and in China, where from 1939 till 1951 he was the apostolic administrator in the city of Zhaotong. Kerec died and was buried in Veržej, Slovenia. A memorial plaque to him is on the wall of the parish church in Pečarovci.
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