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Prayer meet to mark Staines' second death anniversary

Imran Khan in Bhubaneswar

Baripada will observe the second death anniversary of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons, who were burnt alive, with a simple prayer meeting.

"We will hold a prayer meeting at the Baptist Church," said Subrat Fullaoncon, administrator of the Mayurbhanj leprosy home, which was run by Staines.

"We will also distribute the Oriya edition of the book on Staines, Burnt Alive ," he said

Staines' wife Gladys is away in Australia.

"Gladys memsaab and her daughter have not come. They have chosen to observe the death anniversary with family members in Australia," said Mishal Hansdar, driver-cum-housekeeper of the Staines' house in the Baptist Church premises.

Fullaoncon said everybody was missing Gladys. "She will come only in March or April. She has some personal engagements in Australia," he said. Gladys left last August.

Hansdar told rediff.com that on the first death anniversary, Gladys had given final shape to a tomb of Staines in a small graveyard in Baripada near the leprosy home.

She had also proposed to build a 40-bed hospital at the cost of Rs 100 million near the leprosy home. "It will be a memorial hospital either known as Staines hospital or Graham Staines hospital," she had told rediff.com.

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