Abbot Peter Novecosky, OSB, who for more than a quarter century shared the news, and the good news, with Catholics in Western Canada through The Prairie Messenger newspaper, has died at 79. Abbot Novecosky died on Aug. 14, the Vigil of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Humboldt, Sask., after battling cancer. A...
Abbot Peter Novecosky of St. Peter’s Abbey in Muenster, Sask., in a 2012 photo. The former editor of The Prairie Messenger newspaper died Aug. 14 at age 79. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)