"he asked the Universal House of Justice for forgiveness"

When Drs. Leland and Opal Jensen accepted Mason Remey as the second Guardian and wrote letters to the Mauritian Bahá’ís trying to bring them into the Remey camp, Dan was disappointed that he did not get one of these letters. So he wrote to them and Dr Jensen sent him a stack of literature about Mason Remey’s claim to distribute to the ‘waverers’, which he did by post. Upon investigation in 1961 by the Port Louis Assembly, of which he was treasurer, he confessed to all this activity but insisted it was only so that the Bahá’ís could decide for themselves through ‘independent investigation of truth’. He also insisted that he himself had not sent his adherence to Mr Remey. After prolonged and heart-rending consultation and effort on the part of the National Assembly, visiting teacher Aziz Yazdi, and the staunch local friends and institutions over a period of three years, Dan was eventually declared a Covenant-breaker after the Crusade, in January 1964. However, after 19 years of loneliness and being shunned by the Mauritian Bahá’í community, he asked the Universal House of Justice for forgiveness and was reinstated as a Bahá’í in 1983. He passed away peacefully in 1990.

(Heroes and Heroines of the Ten-Year Crusade in Southern Africa by Lowell Johnson, Edith Johnson)