Fr. Josef Vikoler SAC, after a stay of thirty two years at the General House (1978-2011), has returned to his country, Austria. He was primarily the General Archivist and General Librarian, but more lately other responsibilities were added: translator and secretary in different Secretariats and Commissions; he participated in five General Assemblies: two as Delegate and three as Secretary; from 1990 until the present he edited the chronicle of the General House; he translated the Juridical Commentary from German to Italian.
The Community of the General House bid farewell to Fr. Josef Vikoler with a Eucharistic Concelebration on February 5th with a fraternal agape the following day. On that occasion he thanked the Society and the Community for all that he had experienced during these 32 years: "Now the time has come to take down the tent and move it elsewhere", he said.
We wish him the grace to continue to be the gift in Salzburg which he has been for the General House and for the whole Society.