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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 Bowl is broken, p.41

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. NDII, p.497-498

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.

There are 61 priests in the diocese: 22 seculars and 39 Spiritans.

Opening of St. Mary's College in Nairobi.

The "Echo" and the missionary calendar are suppressed by the government.

Opening of St. Mary's School, Nairobi.

Fr Alfonse Mtana, a diocesan priest of the Apostolic Vicariat of Kilimanjaro, becomes the first African priest to be ordained in the Holy Ghost Vicariates of East Africa.

First edition of the "Bulletin de la Province de France."

Opening of the 10th General Chapter (24-31 July) with 68 capitulants and 4 observers. Mgr. Le Hunsec is re-elected Superior General. The Chapter accepts modifications to the Constitutions and approves…

The northern area of the Benue Prefecture is given to the Irish Augustinians. Four new German confreres arrive in the Benue District.

The 800th anniversary of Knechtsteden.

The death of Mgr. Alexandre Le Roy, Superior General from 1896 to 1926. A great missionary and ethnologist, he guided the Congregation through the crises of the French anti-clericalism and…

Central African Republic

Mgr. Grandin, now Vicar Apostolic, consecrates the new cathedral and ordains his first priest, l'Abbé Barthélémy Boganda. The western part of the Vicariat (Berbérati, Bozoum and Doba) is given over…

Apostolic Vicariate of Mahajanga is cut off from a territory in the north to form the Prefecture Apostolic of Ambanja (a name given to it in 1938).

The headquarters of the Church in the Benue Prefecture is moved to Otukpo. Fr. Strick opens a new mission in Gboko. Adamawa Province in the north is detached from the…

Opening of a new house at Wlóki-Chelmszczonka. The growth of the boarding school is such that this larger property in the countryside is necessary.

Opening of the seminary at Silva, left to the Province by the owner, D. Maria Antónia de Sousa e Silva Alcoforado. It begins as a junior seminary, with the hope…

Mgr. Pichot receives the vows of the first sisters at Maevatanana after a noviciate of 7 years!

Launching in Fatima of an organisation for the promotion and support of missions by P. Agostinho de Moura and two scholastics, José Felício and Augusto Teixeira Maio. This body came…

The newspaper "Cameroun Catholique" is launched by the diocese of Brazzaville.

Consecration of the new cathedral at Makurdi, built by Brother Baldomir (German Province). He and other brothers from Germany, trained many Nigerians to work with them as builders, carpenters etc.…

Clocolan (1936), Lindley (1947), Reitz (1953), and Mariadal are all opened as mission stations.

Consecration of the new chapel of the "Kasteel" at Gemert.

The death of Daniel Brottier, worn out by his total dedication to the young people of Auteuil.

The "Ad Lucem" foundation sends personnel for a medical establishment. It is still in existence today.

Mgr. Philip Winterle is made Prefect Apostolic of the Benue. There are now 200 pupils and 11 teachers in the Catholic Primary School, Makurdi town. 500 copies of a Bible…

Père Brottier, 01.01.1936. Lt.14.

The future looks bright for the Oeuvre d'Auteuil and our founders would surely be happy at the prospect. If Père Libermann would rejoice to see his sons looking after the…

Launching of a newspaper in the Ewondo language, "Nleb Bekristen".

Consecration of the cathedral of Tefé.

Brother Mauritius is transferred from Nigeria to Cameroon where he will spend almost 40 years as a builder.

The Prefecture of Kroonstad is raised to a Vicariate.

The Prefecture of northern Katanga is raised to a Vicariate. Mgr. G. Haezaert is ordained bishop.

The clerical noviciate opens at Quinta de Baixo, Fraião, with 17 novices.

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