Be holy, and urge all your confrères to be holy (…). Be holy as Jesus was holy; it is the one and only means of redeeming and sanctifying souls. Let the Spirit of Jesus animate all your actions; let Him shape every sentiment of your soul; let Him soften and moderate every impulse of sharpness in the mind, every harsh or rigid feeling of the heart — in a word, everything passionate or disordered within the soul (…). May He communicate to your heart the gentleness and humility of which the divine Master has given us the example.

François Libermann (N.D XIII, 143-144)

1848 | C.S.Sp.

M. Monnet, the 10th Superior General, is consecrated bishop in the chapel of the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit (rue Lhomond).

1877 | East Africa

Spiritan pioneers, Antoine Horner, Edouard Baur, and Oscar Schwedding, plant a cross at Mhonda in the Nguru Mountains and hence establish a Christian village in inland Tanzania for the first time.

1925 | United Kingdom

Fr Harry Parkinson is the first English Spiritan to leave for West Africa. In the next 20 years, he will be followed to Sierra Leone by 20 more confreres from his province.

1925 | Guinée Conakry

Mgr. Lerouge launches the first Christian review in Guinée, La Voix de Notre Dame.