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Inauguration of the seminary of Viana do Castelo in a former Convent of Ursuline Sisters, with 8 philosophers and 2 theologians. The first Director is P. Pinho who continues in…

Founding of the missions of Ankoro and Malela. Père Louis Lempereur succeeds Père Callewaert as Prefect Apostolic of North Katanga. He will be succeeded by Père Georges Hazaert in 1930.

The "Holy Ghost Fathers" are legally incorporated into Belgium.

The Portuguese government allows brothers to enter the country, on condition that they do not work in groups.

St. Edward's Secondary School is opened and blessed by Bishop O'Gorman. It becomes one of the great schools of the country, both academically and on the sports field.

Fr. Sigismund Rydlewski, of the U.S.A. Province, is authorised to lay the foundation of a province in Poland and opens a junior seminary at Bydgoczsz.

The Legion of Mary is founded in Dublin by Mr Frank Duff and Mr Michael Toher, both Blackrock alumni. In 1948, Frank Duff is made an associate member of the…

At Donguila, three girls take the habit in the new congregation of the Sisters of Mary: Marie Philomène Fatou Berre, Catherine Toubanga Diouf and Anna Raspe.

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Thanks to a lessening in the militant anti-clericalism of recent times, the Spiritans are able to move ahead with their schools programme.

The first four Canadian Spiritains are ordained: Pères Gawlick, Bériault, Chalifoux and Dolan. There are two novices at Grignon in France and three more are preparing to succeed them.

The first serious attempt at a mission to the Tiv people of central Nigeria: Frs Mellett (Ireland) and Douvry (France) go to live in Ogoja to the north-east of Igboland…

Founding of the Mission Society of the Holy Ghost.

Arrival of Fr. Zygmunt Rydlewski at Bydgoszcz where he opens the house at 2, Jary Road and then reopens an \"Orphanage for the children of the defenders of the Country\"…

The Province is canonically erected.

The Foundation of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit.

Père Malessard is appointed Apos-tolic Administrator. He reorganises the Vicariat, re-opens the missions that the German Palatine Fathers had been forced to abandon and establishes new ones. He dies suddenly…

The Congregation buys the property of Allex and transfers there the junior seminary of St. Joseph; it had been started at Beauvais and subsequently moved to Seyssinet and Susa (in…

By the end of the first half of the year, nearly all the German missionaries have been repatriated after the war: 12 priests and 26 brothers.

The junior seminary at Heimbach becomes the noviciate of the Province of Germany.

Opening of the house at Bois-Noir. Having started a missionary school in his own village, Père Villetaz now moves it to a rented house at Bois Noir, near Saint-Maurice. It…

The French Jesuits finally leave the house in Gemert and it becomes a junior seminary for the Spiritans.

The "Afrique", after leaving Bordeaux on January 9 with 599 persons on board, is ship-wrecked off the coast of the Ile de Ré in France, with the loss of Mgr.…

Mgr. Le Roy and the General Council decide to create the Vice-Province of England as from 1 January 1920. Mgr. Le Roy writes to the Irish Provincial, "As for the…

Decree of Rodrigues Caspar, in the preparation of which the Spiritan, P. José Maria Antunes, collaborates. It acknowledges the value of missionary activity.

Fr. Moisés Alves de Pinho, who has recently been called home from Angola to restore the Province of Portugal, promises the Sacred Heart of Jesus that if he succeeds in…

P. Moisés Alves de Pinho is appointed Provincial of the Portuguese Province by Mgr. Le Roy.

P. Joao da Cruz, of the Province of Portugal, opens the house at Montana in the Vallais. It will serve as a sanatorium for the Congregation for many years to…

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Mgr. Lerouge founds the Congregation of "The Little Sisters of Our Lady of Guinée". The first postulant takes the habit. On the same date, but in 1931, he opens the…

The school at Lierre is taken up again as well as the senior scholasticate at Leuven. The novices go to Orly. The French Spiritans leave Gentinnes which then becomes a…

As soon as the war is over, Mgr. Jalabert contacts Père Daniel Brottier in Paris to re-launch the plan, first formulated in 1912, to build a cathedral for Dakar in…

Ordination of Frs. Gustave Bâtonnier, Jean Obame and Jean-Baptiste Adiwa.

Spiritan personnel are reduced in number as a result of the war. The Congregation tries to hand over the management of Collège St. Martial to the Archdiocese, but the plan…

Père Joseph Villetaz, assisted by Frère Clair, opens the first junior seminary in Switzerland in a small private house in Coméraz, a village in the commune of Grimisuat in the…

Hugh McGarry becomes the first former student of Castlehead junior seminary to be ordained priest (in Fribourg).

Introduction of the cause of Père Jacques Laval.

Père Janin takes over responsibility for the cathedral. Spiritans are running nearly all the urban parishes, plus a number of chaplaincies.

Pope Benedict XV signs the decree for the introduction of the cause of Jacques Laval.

The reconstruction of the province begins with the foundation of houses and works: Spire (1922); Donaueschingen (1923); Winterberg (1925); the Provincialate in Cologne (1925); the start of the junior seminary…

During the First World War, 54 confreres were killed. At the end, the province lost the Alsatian confreres and houses as well as the mission of East Africa.

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Even before the war had come to an end, Père Lucas founded the mission of Kourouss.

The first successes in the baccalauréat. The Archbishop of Ottawa gives the tonsure to five scholastics.

German and Alsatian nationals are interned and eventually expelled to Egypt and India. Bishop Vogt is declared persona non grata. Fr. Bartholomew Wilson of the Irish Province replaces him and…

Père Georges Marie de Beaumont C.S.Sp. is appointed Coadjutor Bishop to Mgr. Fabre, Bishop of Saint-Denis. He will succeed him on 26.12.1919.

The Faculty of Philosophy is transferred to St Mary's College, Rathmines. The Provincialate also transfers to this location. The faculty of Theology of Irish aspirants, until this year housed in…

Fr. Donnadieu establishes a mission in Cruzeiro do Sul.

The faculty of Theology for Irish aspirants, until this year housed in Chevilly, near Paris, is opened in Kimmage Manor with 29 students.

The Spiritans move into the castle of Gemert as the previous Jesuit owners return to France.

The Pope confides the diocese of Port Louis to the Spiritans and appoints Fr. John Murphy (Irish Province) as bishop. Prior to this, he was Provincial of both the Irish…

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