ERDA 03 NOVEMBER 2010 In 1994, I. Crozet was wri3ng a book on Fr. Pierre Tritz and ERDA called L’espoir a Manille, but he did not have enough funds to publish the book. He requested for the assistance of the Director of BREPOLS, a major publishing house in Belgium and Paris, M. Michel Rolin, who readily agreed to help finance it. When the book was launched in Paris, Michel Rolin met Fr. Tritz, who typically took the opportunity to ask him if he was willing to work for the Philippines. His answer was, of course, “No.” But six months later, when Michel Rolin re3red aVer 35 years of service in BREPOLS, he remembered Fr. Tritz’s invita3on. AVer much prayer and reflec3on, he decided to accept the invita3on and to take up the challenge. He didn’t know much about fundraising work, so he consulted his Benedic3ne friends who had collaborated with him in BREPOL’s publica3on of the Bible. That was the start of what this year will be 16 years of helping ERDA. Asked why he decided to do it, Michel Rolin said simply that he wanted “to do Meet the couple behind ERDA Belgique MICHEL AND EDITH ROLIN IN THEIR VILLA IN TURNHOUT, BELGIUM HARRY, THEIR PET DOG THE ROLINS’ HORSES: ECLAIR (LIGHTNING) & FLAMME (FLAME) FEEDING THE HORSES THE ROLINS OF TURNHOUT
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