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The Apostolic Vicariate of Bagamoyo (Tanganyika) is confided to the Dutch Province.

The erection of the Dutch Province, the 10th in the Congregation. Fr. Bernard Hilhorst is the first Provincial.

The Gambia is separated from the Apostolic Vicariat of Senegambia and becomes a mission "sui iuris".

Up until the separation of Belgium and Holland in 1931, there were many common formation houses: Lier, Gentinnes, Leuven, Gemeert, Weert, Donk, Baarle-Nassau, Bonsecours, Gennep and Inglemunster. After the split,…

Creation of the Prefecture Apostolic of Douala with Mgr. Mathurin Le Mailloux in charge. In Yaoundé, Mgr. René Graffin is appointed coadjutor to Mgr. Vogt.

Death of Sister Eugénie Caps, Founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit (Spiritaines) at Montana.

The first Spiritans from the U.S. East Province arrive at San Juan, Puerto Rico, to start a missionary project in Arecibo, P.R. They are Frs. Plunkett (Superior) Regis Guthrie, G.…

Belgium/Netherlands

Belgian/Netherlands province was split into two provinces. Père Sébire, the superior before the division, becomes the first provincial of Belgium.

P. Joaquim Alves Pereira: "A Largueza...

Tolerance is not a new virtue that is suspect and infected with liberalism; it is one of the fundamental virtues of Christianity. It is essentially made up of loving patience.…

The first German Spiritans reach Makurdi by train. They immediately start first evangelisation in the country of the Tivs, Idomas and Igalas. Very soon, they will begin to translate school…

Blessing of the new chapel at Chevilly on June 1st. by Mgr. Louis Le Hunsec, Superior General.

Mgr. Pichot presides over the taking of the habit by the first 9 young girls to join the diocesan congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mahajanga.

The German Spiritans arrive in the Benue area of Nigeria to start evangelisation. The Prefect Apostolic is Mgr. Philip Winterle.

Bishop Shanahan welcomes the German Spiritans to work in the northern part of his Vicariate, the mission of Benue. The contract is signed on May 3rd.

Archbishop Arthur Hinsley, later Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, comes to Nigeria as Apostolic visitor. Regarding Bishop Shanahan's Vicariat he writes, 'This is the most flourishing mission in British - if…

Three young confreres make their consecration to the apostolate in the chapel of Saint-Alexandre; seven took the habit the previous month. The first Canadian postulant for the Spiritan sisters, Sister…

Premiere of the missionary film, "Christ in the virgin forest". This is followed by "The Lord in the bush" and "Consecration of daughters amongst the Kwanyama" (1929-1933).

Central African Republic

The new Prefect Apostolic of Ubangui-Chari, Mgr. Marcel Grandin, opens three new missions: Bangassou, Bozoum and Moundou (in present-day Chad).

Mgr. Vogt asks for the Vicariat of Cameroon to be split in two because of the increased work occasioned by many new foundations.

The first members of the English Province ar-ive to work in the Vicariat of Southern Nigeria; they are Frs. Murray, Foreman, Hagan, Grice and Hamill.

The Castle of Gemert is definitively bought by the Spiritans. Rome December, 1988: The Post-Synodal Exhortation by Pope John Paul II on the vocation and mission of lay people in…

The death in Paris of P. José Maria Antunes. Born in Santarém in 1856, he was one of the first students of the Congo seminary at Santarém. He founded the…

First edition of the "Bulletin des Pères du Saint-Esprit". The College now has 13 fathers (including 2 Canadians), 13 brothers (1 Canadian), 5 Scholastics and 11 Sisters of the Sacred…

Centenary of the arrival of the Sisters of St. Joseph de Cluny. It was also the year of the worst cyclone of the century.

Père Henri Nique (1883-1939) is appointed Provincial of France. During his 11 years in office, he strives to increase the number of missionaries in the Province.

Arrival of the first group of German Spiritans in the Prefecture Apostolic of Tefé.

Promulgation of the Organic Statutes of the Catholic Mission by João Belo, which gave a privileged place to Catholic missions and which led to a new phase of intensive missionary…

The Belgian/Dutch Province buys an old office at Gennep belonging to the railway, known affectionately as "The Barracks"! It is used for the philosophers and, subsequently, for the novices.

Bishop John Murphy confides several more parishes to the Spiritans: Pamplemousse, New-Grove, Chemin-Garnier, Notre-Dame du Rosaire and the service of the cathedral.

Foundation of several independent mission stations: Ladybrand (1925), Bethlehem (1926), Winburg (1926), Heilbron (1930), Ficksburg (1933), Vrede (1934), Senekal, Arlington and Frankfort (1935).

Erection of the Vice-Province of Poland. Fr. Zygmunt Rydlewski is named superior with Michal Retka and Pawel Baranski as assistants. The councillors are Frs. Stanislas Kolipinski and Jozef Halba.

The Vicariat Apostolic of Mahajanga is created from the western part of the Vicariat of North Madagascar. Père Paul Pichot, the Vicar General of Mgr. Fortineau, is named as Bishop…

Arrival of the first group of Spiritans in Kroonstad.

Bishop Shanahan founds the first Seminary in Southern Nigeria in the town of Igbarian. In 1951 this Seminary took the name of the Bigard Memorial Seminary after Jeanne Bigard and…

The first Gambian priest, Fr. J. Mendy, is ordained at (Bathurst) Banjul by Mgr. Le Hunsec, Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia.

Arrival of Frère Blaise; he will work there for the next 54 years.

Appointment of the new Prefect Apostolic of Kroonstad, Mgr. Leon Klerlein.

Guinée Conakry

Père Orcel prints the first Coniagui catechism with the Sunday Gospels. Père Leclerc begins the seminary at Dixinn.

Joseph Shanahan founds the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary to assist him in his work with the women of Nigeria.

Daniel Brottier in "France Illustrée", 19...

Thérèse is not a new friend: she has always been our friend (since the foundation by Abbé Roussel). We want her to be our friend for ever and make our…

Daniel Brottier, talking to the staff...

As with the four preceeding directors of Auteuil, you will find in me a great readiness and desire to be useful to you, to help you through life at a…

Opening of the house of philosophy at the Abbaye Blanche, Mortain.

A junior seminary is opened at Mvolyé with 10 students (4 of whom are eventually ordained). Later, the seminary moves to Nlong and then Akono.

In the wake of the communist revolution in Russia, the Congregation is asked by Pius XI, through Cardinal Gasparri, to open a seminary in Rome for the training of priests…

Several German confreres are working in Haiti: Frs. Spies, Scherer and Weik. Fr. Scherer starts a meteorological station and Fr. Daniel Wiek is the founder of the fire brigade of…

German personnel to Trinidad: Fr. Leimann returns and Brothers Benno and Florian are sent on loan. Fr. Leonard Graff remains there until the 1960s.

Death of Fr. Armandus Acker (born in Weyersheim, Alsace 24.04.1848). He is the founder of the German Province.

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