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Father Chris Ponnet, who often served as the lone visitor to hundreds dying of COVID-19 and presided over an annual service honoring the unclaimed dead, died Oct. 7. He was 68.

When news first trickled out that Chris Ponnet, the longtime pastor of the St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care in Lincoln Heights, had died, images and condolences popped up online.

There was a photograph of him being arrested in 2011 at a blockade in downtown Los Angeles over the war in Afghanistan. Another image showed him at an anti-death-penalty rally holding a cross with the message “replace the death penalty” written across the center.

The condolences included one from Sacred Heart High Sch

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