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Makurdi
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…
7 Feb 1947
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Switzerland
The Vice-Province of Switzerland is erected, cut off from the French Province. Père Antoine Clivaz becomes the vice-provincial.
4 Feb 1947
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Cabo Verde
Approval by the Generalate of the contract between the District and the Diocese.
21 Jan 1947
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Cape Verde
The Spiritan District is set up. The first superior is P. Francisco Alves do Rego.
14 Sep 1946
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Netherlands
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,…
12 Jul 1946
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Germany
The German Spiritans celebrate the Golden Jubilee of their Province and of the Junior Seminary at Knechtsteden.
12 May 1946
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Canada
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,…
31 Mar 1946
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France
The Bulletin of the province gives the number of confreres who died during the Second World War: 9 priests, 5 brothers and 9 scholastics.
7 Mar 1946
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England
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.
19 Feb 1946
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U.S.A.
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…
24 Jan 1946
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Netherlands
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…
10 Sep 1945
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Trinidad
Opening of Fatima College, as the other school, St Mary's College, is overcrowded with more than 1,000 students.
23 Jul 1945
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Poland
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…
1 May 1945
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Congo
The start of a great increase in parishes in the diocese of Brazzaville. The seminaries are also developed.
29 Apr 1945
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South Africa
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.
3 Apr 1945
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Guinée Conakry
Père Michel Chaverot organises the first Christian trade union in the country (C.F.T.C.).
28 Feb 1945
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South Africa
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.
11 Feb 1945
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France
The death of Père Emile Muller, Superior of the Mother House, in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.
11 Dec 1944
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Cape Verde
P. Augusto Nogueira de Sousa is the first Spiritan to work on the island of Maio.
23 May 1944
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Germany
The Provincialate in Cologne is destroyed during an air raid.
22 Apr 1944
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Congo Kinshasa
Ordination to the priesthood of the first local priest.
16 Feb 1944
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Kenya
Bishop Joseph Shanahan dies in Nairobi at the age of 72.
25 Dec 1943
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USA
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,…
25 Nov 1943
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Netherlands
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,…
23 Sep 1943
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Madagascar
Ernest Ramiaramanisa is ordained priest by Mgr. Wolff in the church of Mahabibo, the first Madagascan priest from the Vicariat Apostolic of of Mahajanga.
15 Aug 1943
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Portugal
A centre for spiritual guidance for students is opened at Coimbra. The first director if P. Clemente Pereira da Silva.
23 Jul 1943
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Portugal
The review "Portugal in Africa" is restarted as a substitute for "Missions in Angola and Congo".
30 Apr 1943
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Canada
The senior scholasticate opens at Daulac (Montreal).
10 Apr 1943
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South Africa
Three local priests are ordained by Bishop Klerlein.
16 Mar 1943
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Ethiopia
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.
31 Jan 1943
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Cape Verde
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.
17 Dec 1942
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Congo Kinshasa
A Junior seminary is built at Kongolo.
16 May 1942
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Guinée Conakry
Père Le Mailloux launches the first Catholic Action group in Conakry.
26 Mar 1942
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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…
1 Jan 1942
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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,…
31 Dec 1941
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Cape Verde
Pères Lucio and Lindorfo arrive on the island of Santiago to take over the parishes of St Nicolau Tolentino and Salvador do Mundo.
15 Dec 1941
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Cape Verde
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…
30 Nov 1941
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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…
17 Nov 1941
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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…
18 Sep 1941
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Portugal
P. Faustino Moreira dos Santos is ordained bishop in the church of St. Dominic in Viana do Castelo.
5 Jul 1941
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Germany
Knechtsteden is closed down by the government and priests and seminarians are expelled. 35 brothers and 4 priests are sent to forced labour.
16 May 1941
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Gabon
Three Spiritan sisters die of yellow fever at Mayumba.
7 May 1941
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Ireland
John Charles McQuaid is ordained Archbishop of Dublin. He thus becomes the first and only Irish Spiritan to serve as a bishop in Ireland.
27 Dec 1940
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Sierra Leone
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…
14 May 1940
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Sierra Leone
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…
19 Apr 1940
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Nigeria
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…
10 Jan 1940
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U.S.A.
Fr. George Collins becomes the first US-born Provincial of the Province.
19 Sep 1939
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Cameroon
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.
11 Sep 1939
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