Jesuit priest and scholar Casper J Miller, who taught hundreds of students at St Xavier’s School died on 15 January in Lalitpur after a career spanning 60 years in Nepal.
Miller, known affectionately to his students as ‘Fr Cap’ was 90, and had been bed-ridden for a month. He was cremated at Teku after a funeral service at Assumption Church, Jawalakhel.
Miller was born in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, and joined the Jesuit order when he was just 19, and first came to Nepal in 1958. Besides teaching and mentoring students, Miller is best known for his classic book on Himalayan shamans, Faith-healers in the Himalaya, first published in 1979.
He also wrote Decision Making in Village Nepal in 1990, long before political devolution and decentralisation were institutionalised in the new Constitution.
Miller served as principal of St Xavier’s School in Godavari in the early 1970s, and devoted the rest of his life for the economic and spiritual upliftment of people in Nepal, especially the remote parts of Dhading district.
According to colleague attending to him at the St Xavier’s Jesuit Community in Jawalakhel, Miller’s last words were: “मेरो प्यारो नेपाल” (My beloved Nepal).
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