FELICE (FINK) da ANVERSA. - Capuchin missionary and writer of the Province of Belgium, b. at Anversa on 11 Jan. 1868, he entered the novitiate on 13 May 1886, departed for the mission of Punjab (India) in May 1889, was ordained priest on 26 Apr. 1891, and d. at Maryabad on 29 March 1932.
He devoted himself especially to the conversion and social advancement of the poor populations called “paria”; on his own initiative, having obtained extensive lands from the English government, he established villages or colonies of newly Christian families there, such as Maryabad, Khuspur (1900), Lyallpur (1908), Mongomery (1914), Rahimpur (1921). He was apostolic administrator of the apostolic prefecture of Bettiah (Bihar, 1916–21); on 21 July 1927 he was appointed superior of the Punjab mission. By order of his major superiors, he collected numerous documents concerning Bishop Anastasio Hartmann, which he delivered in 1908 to the S. Congregazione dei Riti. He successfully pursued documentary research and the historical study of the missions of the Capuchins and Jesuits in India; he wrote valuable articles and monographs.