•27- ■ rsv. lanugo jSoxsebia (1952- ) Over the years and Kinkora have had close connections as far aa pastors are concerned, father ;4>Xenna, the present incumbent, also bails from that thriving parish, having been born in in 1916, fie also has a sister in the religious life. After gradual* iag from 3t, Jtanetan's in 1937. ho entered Holy coax* Seminary, Halifax, and was ordained in Ms home ofcuroh of St, i &lachy on June 19 1941. Bo served as curate at St, Peter's Bay, vharlottetown, and Souris , and in 1948 reoeived his first pariah, that of St. -Drigid's. lot ll,2"? In 1952* he wee transferred to lona where be found a wider field of labor than that which he had left, ;v takixur the lead in the direction of a m«jor face lifting for the parish prop# ertjr, and by wielding the hacmer and saw himself when the occasion de- nanded it, he was able to count as im accoraplishojant within a few years cost of his original piano, including an honest attempt toward the completion of the church13 interior. Following the latter* 3 de¬ struction in 1959,. Sather HoKoma Icopt a level head with the result that St. SBofaoel'o The 2hird is the envy of not a few outside pastors end parishioners.. Soday lona boasts a parochial foundation second to xione in the Siocese. and for this snob credit irust necessarily go to the present shepherd, Though still young, Snther E 3oKem» is noving on for his twenty-fifth anniversary as a priest. In the early days, the area surrounding St, rdchael's iiission was known as Montague .'.oat, and la-tor aa utontagua Gross, Undoubtedly this <-7 Conversation with father i .&Kenna, lona, 1961,