Michel Vanduffel

Michel Vanduffel ( Lindelhoeven , September 25th 1921 - Kongolo ( Katanga ), January 1 1962 ) was a Flemish , Roman Catholic priest and missionary in the Belgian Congo .

Vanduffel descended from a family of seven children from the Kapelstraat in Lindelhoeven, a borough of Overpelt . On September 9, 1945, he was to Leuven devoted father. The following year he moved on behalf of the Holy Ghost Fathers to the Belgian Congo to the place Kongolo in Katanga province. He was there from 1953 to 1957 Head of Mission. Then he was given responsibility for the parish of Kangoy . He was with several other clerics on nieuwsjaarsdag 1962 murdered Kongolo. Each year, in the Walloon Gentinnes a day to commemorate the victims of this massacre.