Some sad news - many years ago when I had web site for this ARNOLD family [15 years] I was contacted by Father Leo ARNOLD and and we have corresponded ever since - He even sent me photos of the day he met the pope which I have put in my Arnold book I am so sad - I have details about him of anyone wants them - his great grandmother was a Milton Abbas Arnold I did not know he died until this morning when his email and card came back - LEO ARNOLD SJ RIP Tags: Leo Arnold; RIP 03 Jul 2017 Your prayers are asked for the repose of the soul of Fr Leo Arnold SJ. Leo died peacefully early yesterday morning (Sunday 2nd July 2017) in the infirmary of the Peter Canisius community in Rome. He had been suffering from cancer for some time, and his condition had gradually deteriorated over the last few months. He was 88 years old, and had been a Jesuit for 70 years. Leo was born in Boscombe, Dorset, on 14th February 1929. He was educated at St Peter's school in Southbourne, and entered the Jesuit novitiate in Roehampton on 7th September 1946. His philosophy and theology studies took place in Heythrop College in Oxfordshire, with a regency teaching at Mount St Mary's. He was ordained in Heythrop on St Ignatius day in 1958, and then, after a fourth year of theology, made his tertianship at Tronchiennes in Belgium. He next took a BA in Arabic studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and, in 1962, was sent to Beirut, where he spent the next 13 years teaching English language and Arabic studies, and as university chaplain. In 1975 he had to return to London because of the civil war in Lebanon. In London he worked at Heythrop, as sub-minister and later minister, and as assistant editor of the Heythrop Journal. When, in 1979, it was decided that he was unlikely to be able to return to Lebanon in the foreseeable future, he was assigned to the Biblicum in Rome, where he taught Arabic and Greek during the next three decades. He retired from teaching in 2009, and moved into the Canisius retirement community in 2015. Funeral arrangements will be made in the coming days. May he rest in peace.