Category Blessed Iwene Tansi

Fr. Tansi’s death is a material loss but a spiritual gain.  We have lost a friend and a Father but we have gained a saintly advocate who is very aware of our needs. Father Tansi did not die of old…

He trained us strictly with lashes to see that we know almost every part of hymns with their different tones. He told us to drink eggs to see that our voices be changed to all tones required… Each time one…

At Ufesiodo, he would go to say Mass, and would go for very long periods of time without food. I remember one occasion after Mass, he told me to do the same. I was supposed to be going around getting…

At Nnewi Parish (1938 – 1939) No Rev. Father was as good as Fr. Tansi and Nnewians so loved him that when his transfer was hinted to them they rose in unison to object to it… Neither the Catholics nor…

He tried to do everything with perfection, even ordinary manual labour…. At Igbariam we had to cultivate the soil. We had general work and private work. Private work was cleaning our rooms, the refectory, the dormitory and so on. General…

As a Teacher… We were all living together. At a time when there was nobody in the church, you would see him kneeling before a statue of Our Lady. He would talk with her as a child talks to his…

He had a very profound faith in God, in the Providence of God and in particular Providence. He told me with his own lips how his father, in the bad old colonial days, got into trouble and was put in…

Personal Reminiscence of Fr. Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi by Fr. Robert M. Hodge ocso Mt. St. Bernard Abbey. Now in his nineties, Fr. Robert recalls his first experience in the monastery with Fr. Cyprian as a fellow novice. Father Cyprian…

In praise of Father Cyprian In the year 1098 the Cistercians were founded in France by Saints Robert, Alberic and Stephen. The highlight of the ninth centenary celebrations will be the beatification of The Venerable Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi in…

CYPRIAN MICHAEL IWENE TANSI, O.C.S.O., A MODEL PRIEST FOR OUR TIMES. On 22 March 1998 the Holy Father is going to beatify the Ven. Father Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, o.c.s.o., at Onitsha in Nigeria. Father Tansi is in many ways…