Koren, Spiritans East Africa Memorial Br. Vincent de Paul (Daniel) McNALLY b. December 10, 1838 Dorsomine, co. Monaghan + January 3, 1908 Langonnet. Early in 1860 he entered the Congregation as a postulant at Blachardstown and made his vows on September 28, 1862 at Chevilly. After working at Blackrock and Rockwell (1864), he served in Langonnet and Cellule, until his desire to serve in the missions could be granted in November 1872 and he was assigned to Mauritius. He worked there in a college, but was happy when it was decided to close it in 1881 and he was transfened to East Africa. He was in his element there in the busy missions of Zanzlbar and Bagamoyo. ln 1886, however, a new inland mission was launched in Botswana in connection with Fr. Duparquet's attempts to penetrate into the deep interior below the equator. Brother Vincent was chosen to be one of the five Spiritans composing the original team. The failure of this attempt resulted in his transfer to Australia to pioneer there again with the opening of Holy Spirit College in Ballarat. ln 1892 he could retum to East Africa. This time he was stationed in Mombasa. He spent the remaining years of his

active life in Africa at this mission, supplying inland foundations with all their needs and making himself useful to his beloved Africans. 

Exhausted after thirty years in the tropics, he retired to Rockwell and then in 1904 to Langonnet. There he died, leaving behind the memory of a very pious and devoted confrere, whose humorous stories about what he had seen and heard all over the world often entertained the retired veterans in Langonnet.