The funeral will be on Thursday 30 juli, at 11.00 o'clock in Bavel. The Superior General, Javier Álvarez-Ossorio will preside the funeral mass together with Henrique Scheepens the younger brother of Jan.
May the good God give Jan eternal rest and peace. Amen.
19.04.1928 Born and baptised in Best
Son of Cornelius Joannes Scheepens and
Maria Catharina van Abeelen
1941-1947 Minor seminarie in Sint-Oedenrode
30.08.1947 Noviciate in Bavel
24.09.1948 Temporary vows in Bavel
24.09.1951 Perpetual vows in Valkenburg
30.08.1953 Ordination in Valkenburg
20.08.1954 Practical pastoral year in Nuland
20.08.1955 Study at the Radboud University in Nijmegen: Study of ‘The Classics’.
In the meantime master at the minor seminary in Sint-Oedenrode
13.04.1962 Doctorandus in ‘The Classics’
09.08.1962 Prior of the community of Sint Oedenrode
03.08.1964 Superior of the community of Sint Oedenrode
24.11.1964 Provincial superior of the Dutch province
08.10.1967 Superior of the community of the provincial house in Bavel
30.05.1968 Elected as member of the Conference of the Dutch Religious Priests
01.10.1968 Elected as member of the National Dutch Commission for Mission
28.09.1970 Elected as General Superior ss.cc.
17.11.1970 Departed to Rome
10.10.1976 Reelected as General Superior ss.cc.
30.04.1978 Decorated as Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion
18.09.1982 End of his second period as General Superior
10.11.1982 Back in Holland, member of the community of Bavel
Departure to Peru. As member of the Dutch province he helps the Peruvian province as formator
in Arequipa (postulancy)
12.01.1985 Elected as member of the provincial council of the Peruvian province
01.01.1987 Becomes a member of the Peruvian province
1985 First responsible formator in Lima (El Callao)
1987 Professor at the Theological Institute of Lima (Latin language)
1991 Les responsibility for the formation
Helping out in some parish
Chaplain in a hospital of German sisters and the German sisters convent
1993 Some complaints about his health: problems with his eyes; easily tired
1994 No longer first responsibility for the formation
Chairman of the commission for the preparation of the feast of the beatification of father Damian
1998 Pastoral assistant in the sscc parish at the Plaza Francia in Lima and member of the community
of the provincial house
2001 Operation of his eye
19.09.2003 Golden priest jubilee in Lima
11.11.2003 Returns to Holland because of his health. Member of the Dutch province and member of the
community of Bavel
14.02.2006 Moves to the Common Convent for Old Religious, members of different congregations
‘Joannes Zwijsen’in Tilburg.
26.07.2009 Deceases in Tilburg.