Fr Babu Rao was here from Nellore (Sulurpet) with us since yesterday evening. He joined us for the wedding of Laxmi and was quite at home here. He belonged to one of the first batches of this Seminary. It was during his second year that the Salesians took over the management of the Seminary from the Diocesans.
I had met him earlier in Sulurpet when I joined the Provincial council on its visit to inspect a place in an SEZ. It was a request to take charge of a school in that special zone. Fr Babu Rao had hosted us for lunch one afternoon. He came across to me as a very sincere and jovial person. Today too he was very down to earth, no airs or big demands. He went about chatting and talking to all with a simple smile and a kind word. Nice to have met him again.
During our journey from Vizag last night, he was narrating some of the incidents that took place during his student days at Kondadaba. The best was the one when Brothers, in those days, sneaked out in the afternoon to the theatre after the petrol bunk in Kothavalasa. On one such afternoon, an old parishoners, a devout Catholic woman, met the Brothers just outside the theatre. The Brothers having purchased the ticket were about to enter the hall when she recognised them and there and then she knelt before them seeking their blessings! The Brothers did not know which way to look!
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