Thomas Flynn SSC, was an Irish missionary priest, who was killed by Hukbalahap communist rebels in 1950 in the Philippines.
[1] Thomas Flynn was born on 5 November 1908 in Sixmilebridge, County Clare, Ireland.
He joined the Missionary Society of St. Columban Mission to China in 1947, and was posted to the Philippines in 1948.
On 30 October 1950, Flynn was taken from his parish in Labrador, Pangasinan, Philippines by Hukbalahap Communist guerrillas, and killed.
[3] In 2003 his remains were exhumed and interred in the family plot in Ballysheen, Co. Clare,[4] In attendance at his interment were 30 Columban fathers and his sister, Sr Marie Flynn of the Medical Missionaries of Mary.