Francis H. McGauley, 86, Merion Station, Pa.

Friday, July 18, 2008

McGauley served in India for 31 years and led retreats at several Jesuit retreat houses including at Loyola Retreat House in Faulkner. He was a Jesuit for 65 years and a priest for 53 years.

McGauley was born in Boston on April 22, 1922, the son of the late Frank H. and the late Muriel E. McGauley. A graduate of Framingham High School in Massachusetts, he studied at Georgetown University for three years. He then entered the Society of Jesus at the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues, in Wernersville, Pa., on Sept. 7, 1942, and pronounced his first vows in the Society of Jesus on Sept. 8, 1944.

He first went to India in 1951 as a Jesuit scholastic.

When Father McGauley returned to the United States in 1980, he began his ministry directing retreats. He was retreat director at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., from 1980 to 1981, as well as assistant to the pastor of St. Aloysius Church. He served as director of the Spiritual Exercises at Manresa-on-Severn in Annapolis from 1981 to 1986, superior and director of Loyola Retreat House in Faulkner from 1986 to 1992.

In 2005, Father McGauley resided at St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Church in Woodstock, working there as a pastoral minister until 2008 when due to failing health he moved to Manresa Hall in Merion Station, where he prayed for the church and the society until his death.

McGauley is survived by his brother, David O. McGauley of Towson; sister, Carolyn Ann McGauley Coady of Salisbury; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Viewing will be held at St. Ignatius Church, 740 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, 2-7:30 p.m. on July 18.

]A Mass of Christian Burial will follow. Burial will be at 11:30 a.m. July 19 at the Jesuit Cemetery, Wernersville, Pa.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Francis Xavier House of Prayer at St. Ignatius Church, 805 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202.

Arrangements are being handled by Dinan Funeral Home, Philadelphia and Mitchell-Wiedefeld, Baltimore.