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The death of Père Adolphe Cabon, the archivist of the Congregation. Between 1929 and 1956, he published the collection of "Notes et Documents relatifs à la Vie et à l'Oeuvre…

Mgr. Ndong, the first bishop from Gabon, is ordained by Mgr. Marcel Lefebvre, the Apostolic Delegate, at Libreville.

As Sierra Leone gains Independence from the United Kingdom, Catholics are 1% of the population. Joseph Ganda is ordained a priest in Bo - the first Sierra Leonean to become…

The Patrician Congress, commemorating the 1,500th anniversary of the death of St Patrick is celebrated in Ireland with Cardinal Agagianian as Papal Legate. Among the highlights is a Missionary Exhibition…

Père Albert Forgeur (Belgium), chaplain to the gendarmes of Katanga, is killed while helping a soldier who is gravely wounded. His body is thrown into the Lualaba river.

Makunka parish (Livingstone diocese) is one of the earliest mission which Spiritans take on arrival in the diocese (67 kms west of Livingstone).

Père Jean Courtcuisse leaves his house in the village of Botko before six in the morning to go to the chapel. Along with the village head and another man, he…

Fr Joseph Kilasara is ordained a Bishop in Rome. He is the first East African Spiritan Bishop as well as the first African-born Bishop of Moshi.

The work of the Spiritans in Arecibo (Puerto-Rico) is so successful that the Holy See creates the Diocese of Arecibo, entrusted to the diocesan clergy.

Arrival of the first sisters in Mauritania, the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition. With the proclamation of an Islamic Republic in 1960, mission work becomes more difficult; the…

The Prefecture of Otukpo is raised to a Diocese with Bishop James Hagan in charge. He resides in Otukpo.

A delegation goes to Rome for the beatification of Mère Anne-Marie Javouhey, the founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny. Her first missionaries arrived in Guadeloupe in 1822…

First edition of the review "Spiritus".

Central African Republic

Just before the declaration of independence, l'Abbé Barthélémy Boganda, the President of the Council of Government, disappears in an air crash.

The creation of the diocese of Mouila. Libreville becomes an Archdiocese.

Bishop Moloney is enthroned as the first Bishop of the new Diocese of Bathurst in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. The same day, but 53 years before,…

The General Council erects the new community of the Holy Spirit in the place of the community of Daulac. The senior scholasticate moves there with a team of four fathers.…

The junior seminary at Weert is officially recognised by the State as a secondary school.

Dakar replaces Saint-Louis as the capital of Senegal.

First Spiritan African noviciate opens at Awomama. Bishop J. B. Whelan of Owerri celebrates the inaugural mass for the five novices who start their noviciate with Fr J. Mohan as…

Bathurst becomes a diocese with Bishop Moloney at its head.

A seminary for late vocations opens at Hettem.

Appointment of Father Pedro Valdez as Principal of St Mary's College, the first past-student and Trinidadian to hold this post.

The encyclical "Fidei Donum" of Pius XII. In it, he invites bishops to send some of their diocesan priests and committed lay people to help in the missions.

Creation of the new Apostolic Vicariat of Kindu with Mgr. Jean Fryns as bishop.

Establishment of Holy Ghost Noviciate, Awo-Omamma.

The reign of terror of the Duvalier family. The Spiritans try to defend the people and look after the young. Père Grienenberger, the superior, as well as his successor, are…

Prefecture of Kaolack established and confided to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.

On the day when the students are returning to the junior seminary at Paredas da Nava, P. José Maria Felgueiras is seriously injured while rescuing a student in danger of…

Profession of the first Spanish brother, Javier Jesœs Blanco Martinez.

The mission of Puerto Rico becomes a District. The central house is at Dorado and the first superior if Fr. R. Eberhard.

The first Spiritan house in Scotland is opened at Uddingston in Glasgow. It thus becomes the most northerly house in the whole of the Congregation.

Erection of the new Vicariat of Kindu. It is made up of the northern part of Kongolo and the southern part of Stanleyville (Kisangani).

Cardinal Tisserant goes to several capitals in francophone West Africa to establish the new hierarchies set up by Mgr. Lefebvre C.S.Sp., the Apostolic Delegate. Henceforth the local Church is responsible…

The Vicariate Apostolic of Guyane becomes the Diocese of Guyane.

Brazil Province

The General Council confides the Federal States of Sao Paulo, Panama, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul to the German Province with a view to founding a new Province…

The Apostolic Prefecture of Saint-Louis regains its autonomy under Mgr. Landreau on January 28th, 1955. The boundaries are re-drawn, but it retains jurisdiction over Mauritania. Gorée is attached again to…

Five Mauritian priests are ordained at Mary Queen of Peace by Mgr. de Langavant, the bishop of Reunion. Bishop Liston of Port Louis was sick at the time.

P. Augusto Dias da Silva bequeaths a house to the Congregation in Avenida da Boavista in Porto. It becomes a centre for missionary awareness.

P. Augusto Nogueira is appointed Apostolic Administrator on the death of Bishop Faustino. He starts the diocesan seminary.

Irish Spiritans open a residence in Woodstock (Ontario) in Canada. This is the first step in the development of the new circumscription.

At Bandoung (Indonesia), 29 countries from Asia and Africa condemn colonialism, racial discrimination and nuclear weapons.

Establishment of the hierarchy in French Africa. On September 14, 1955, Mgr. Levebvre becomes the first Archbishop of Dakar. Henceforth, the local Church is responsible for the mission; the Congregation…

A national Marian congress takes place at Yaoundé. Throughout this year a statue of Our Lady travels to each mission in the Diocese.

The Spiritan Sisters leave Maha-janga. They had arrived there in May, 1927.

The Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary come to the Prefecture of Makurdi and help to run the combined hospital in Otukpo town.

Mgr. Michel Bernard, Vicar Apostolic of Conakry, is appointed Vicar of Brazzaville. He will live through many important events: the presidency of L'Abbé Fulbert Youlu (1958); independence (1960); the start…

Central African Republic

Bangassou is confided to the Dutch Province and becomes an Apostolic Prefecture, led by Mgr. M. Bodewes.

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