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Ian Edward Holland

Los Angeles, California

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HOLLAND, Msgr. Ian Edward Sept. 29, 1923 - Nov. 26, 2002 Monsignor Ian Edward Holland, long-time Pastor of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Culver City, CA., died peacefully on Tuesday, November 26, in Los Angeles. Msgr. Holland had a great love for sailing, playing the church organ, and...

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I understood from another pastor that Msgr. Holland has made significant church theology, and though it could possibly be a category for sainthood, Father Holland that I met was more concern about the welfare of the homeless (30 years ago before the politicians talked about it).

I knew him when he was Father Ian. He served as an associate priest at my parish ( St. Victors ) in West Hollywood, California back in the 1970 's. Having served as an alter boy back in the mid sixties at that parish and having served with many different priests father Ian and Father George Bresslin were my favorites. I will always cherish one particular early evening when I happened to hear from the church, the playing of the churches beautiful pipe organ. I was so taken by its incredible...

Msgr. Ian was a wonderful man and priest. I enjoyed visiting him on numerous occasions, and was lucky enough to go sailing with him on his boat. I will miss his homilies at the Thanksgiving Day masses in Fresno, when he would come to visit the Sullivan Family. May his memory be eternal.