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The Prefecture of the Benue is confided to the English Province and soon after becomes the Prefecture of Otukpo. The first four members of the Canadian Province arrive in the…

The Vice-Province of Switzerland is erected, cut off from the French Province. Père Antoine Clivaz becomes the vice-provincial.

Approval by the Generalate of the contract between the District and the Diocese.

The Spiritan District is set up. The first superior is P. Francisco Alves do Rego.

The Prefecture Apostolic of Tefé in Amazonia (Brazil) is confided to the Dutch Province. Mgr. Jouke de Lange is named the first Prefect. Fourteen young Dutch Spiritans, priests and brothers,…

The German Spiritans celebrate the Golden Jubilee of their Province and of the Junior Seminary at Knechtsteden.

Mgr. Le Hunsec creates the Province of Canada, with Père Louis Taché as Provincial. The provincial house is at Collège Saint-Alexandre. In the Province, there are 76 members: 44 fathers,…

The Bulletin of the province gives the number of confreres who died during the Second World War: 9 priests, 5 brothers and 9 scholastics.

The Vice-Province of England becomes a Province with the Provincial House at Bickley, Kent. This house also becomes a centre for late vocations and over the years produces 33 Spiritans.

Fr. James Hyland and several others be-come the founding fathers of Spiritan missions in the Far West of the U.S.A., notably in Southern California at Hemet, Riverside and Bakersfield. They…

Re-opening of the junior seminary at Weert, the senior scholasticate at Gemert and, a little later, the houses at Baarle Nassau and Gennep for the brothers. Around 116 Priests and…

Opening of Fatima College, as the other school, St Mary's College, is overcrowded with more than 1,000 students.

All the work of the Province comes to a halt because of World War II: 3 priests and 2 scholas-tics change circumscription; 3 scholastics, 7 brothers and 7 novices leave…

The start of a great increase in parishes in the diocese of Brazzaville. The seminaries are also developed.

These years were characterised by increased building activity; in this period, 29 churches, 8 chapels, 5 schools, 11 parish houses, 12 houses for catechists and 3 parish halls were built.

Guinée Conakry

Père Michel Chaverot organises the first Christian trade union in the country (C.F.T.C.).

These years were characterised by increased building activity; in this period, 29 churches, 8 chapels, 5 schools, 11 parish houses, 12 houses for catechists, and 3 parish halls were built.

The death of Père Emile Muller, Superior of the Mother House, in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

P. Augusto Nogueira de Sousa is the first Spiritan to work on the island of Maio.

The Provincialate in Cologne is destroyed during an air raid.

Ordination to the priesthood of the first local priest.

Bishop Joseph Shanahan dies in Nairobi at the age of 72.

Fr. James Hyland C.S.Sp. (1886-1953), an Irishman of the "Mission Band", publishes his novel "The Dove Flies South", graphically exposing what it means to be black in a white society,…

The area of Doumé in the east of Cameroon is confided to the Dutch Province; it becomes a new district, separated from Yaoundé. The first superior is Fr. Jacques Teerenstra,…

Ernest Ramiaramanisa is ordained priest by Mgr. Wolff in the church of Mahabibo, the first Madagascan priest from the Vicariat Apostolic of of Mahajanga.

A centre for spiritual guidance for students is opened at Coimbra. The first director if P. Clemente Pereira da Silva.

The review "Portugal in Africa" is restarted as a substitute for "Missions in Angola and Congo".

The senior scholasticate opens at Daulac (Montreal).

Three local priests are ordained by Bishop Klerlein.

Prehistory of our presence in Ethiopia, when Fr Devenish (Trinidad), as Pro-Vicar Apostolic, leads a group of Spiritans (Frs. Fitzsimmons, Watkins and Grennan), replacing Italian missionaries expelled from Harar.

Cardinal Maglione, the Vatican Secretary of State, confides the missions of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde to the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.

A Junior seminary is built at Kongolo.

Guinée Conakry

Père Le Mailloux launches the first Catholic Action group in Conakry.

Joseph Shanahan, 01.01.1942: Before the Golden...

How well I know that very special sense of nothingness in the presence of what looms up as an impossible, insuperable, unutterable weakness... when hope seems to vanish and with…

Libermann to Douay, 31.12.1841. NDIII, p.88-89

When the Holy Spirit works in us, our soul is on fire and it is as though it is carried and united to God without any worries, without feeling anxious,…

Pères Lucio and Lindorfo arrive on the island of Santiago to take over the parishes of St Nicolau Tolentino and Salvador do Mundo.

A group of Spiritans arrives at the island of S. Nicolau: José Neiva Araujo, Lucio Casimiro dos Anjos, Lindorfo Joachim Quintas, and Mgr. Faustino Moreira dos Santos, bishop of Cape…

D. Faustino Moreira dos Santos, the new bishop of Cape Verde, sets out with the first Spiritan missionaries sent to the archipelago: Frs. José Neiva Araújo, Lúcio dos Anjos (both…

Libermann to his brother, Samson: 18.09.1841....

I must tell you about the great mercy and goodness that Our Lord has shown towards me, his undeserving servant who is not even worthy to speak his name: this…

P. Faustino Moreira dos Santos is ordained bishop in the church of St. Dominic in Viana do Castelo.

Knechtsteden is closed down by the government and priests and seminarians are expelled. 35 brothers and 4 priests are sent to forced labour.

Three Spiritan sisters die of yellow fever at Mayumba.

John Charles McQuaid is ordained Archbishop of Dublin. He thus becomes the first and only Irish Spiritan to serve as a bishop in Ireland.

Fr Edward Hamelberg, who is a Creole from Freetown of mixed Austrian and Mende roots, becomes the first Sierra Leonean priest and Spiritan. He studies at Chevilly and is ordained…

During the Second World War, Freetown harbour became a huge centre for the Royal Navy and there were also many army camps near the town. Bishop Kelly received no extra…

The German Spiritans, who had arrived in the Benue area of Nigeria in 1930, are compelled to leave in 1940 and are interned in Jamaica for the duration of the…

Fr. George Collins becomes the first US-born Provincial of the Province.

The first Sister Servants of Mary take their vows at Douala. Many confreres are called up at the start of the war, but they are gradually freed from military duties.

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