After being ordained a Priest in 1966 in his home Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen, Northern Italy, Fr. Adolf Pöll left his hometown of South Tyrol at the border of Italy and Austria in December 1968 to serve as a missionary priest in Kenya, East Africa. The Mill Hill Missionary, known to many as Fr. Alleluia, served in the Catholic Diocese of Kisii from 1969 to 2000. On Pentecost Sunday 2001, Fr. Adolf received his appointment to the Coast of Kenya to serve in the Catholic Diocese of Malindi, and 20 years later, on Pentecost Sunday 2021, he celebrated his farewell Mass at Witu-Kipini Parish in the Central Deanery of Malindi Diocese. On May 25, 2021, the Missionary Priest, who celebrated his 81st birthday on June 3, packed all his personal belongings acquired during his more than five decades of Priestly Ministry in Kenya, fitting in just two small bags, and started his journey back home in Italy for retirement. Luke 9:3-6 He told them: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt. Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town. If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.” So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere
