Our kind God and Father has called to eternal life our confrere Fr. Joseph Gruber Missionary of the Precious Blood from the Teutonic Province on May 4, 2022.

Fr. Gruber was born in Hinterthiersee/Tirol on June 21, 1936. He made his definitive incorporation in the community on January 29, 1964. In 1965 he went to Brazil as a brother missionary, studied theology there, and was ordained priest in Altamira on July 26, 1981. He celebrated his first mass at home on July 11, 1982 in Thiersee.
Fr. Josef Gruber was a missionary in the Xingu, Brazil until his return home in 2018. He spent his retirement in Mariahilf in Kufstein, Austria.

The rosary for Fr. Josef Gruber was prayed on Sunday, May 8, at 7:00 p.m. in the pilgrimage church of Kleinholz.
His funeral mass was celebrated on Monday, May 9, at 10:30 a.m., followed by his burial in the community cemetery.