page_title: Muffles Junior College
section_title: Namesake
hierarchical_section_title: Muffles Junior College / Namesake
caption_attribution_description: English: Jesuit priests Joseph Meuffels &amp; William "Buck" Stanton
context_page_description: Muffles Junior College is in Orange Walk District, Belize.
context_section_description: Muffles College is named after Fr. Joseph Meuffels, a Jesuit from Holland who arrived in Belize in 1898 and taught at St. John’s College for two years. In 1900 he began a twenty-year stint pastoring the Orange Walk church. He saw through the building of the present Inmaculada, replacing the earlier building destroyed by fire on November 28, 1899. With the help of Brother Naughton, S.J., Meuffels expanded the work of the schools and in 1914 brought the Pallottines to Orange Walk.  In 1920 he returned to SJC where he taught religion and was a counselor until his death on January 23, 1931. To the left he is pictured with Bishop Joseph Murphy in 1928.
caption: Jesuit priests Joseph Meuffels & "Buck" Stanton c. 1908
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