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The fall of Yaoundé puts an end to the fighting in Cameroon during the First World War. P. Hoegn (Pallotine) passes on jurisdiction for the English zone to Joseph Shanahan…

Eugénie Caps decides to found the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit (Spiritaines).

Mauritania, which had been confided to the White Fathers in 1901, is once more attached to Saint-Louis at the request of Mgr. Jalabert.

Père Daniel Brottier volunteers as a military chaplain at the outbreak of the First World War and is appointed to the 26th Infantry Division. His courage and devotion during the…

Mgr. Le Roy, December 1913. B.G....

It is because of this great need (the number of Catholic immigrants coming to Canada) that we finally opened the Collège St. Alexandre last year. There are 120 students, aged…

The Protestant pastor and doctor, Albert Schweitzer, arrives with his wife Hélène at Lam-baréné. He opens his hospital which is organised in such a way that the sick will not…

Bishop Emile-Auguste Allgeyer moves the seat of his diocese from Zanzibar to Nairobi. He retires on 24.04.1913 and is replaced by Bishop Gerald Neville of the Irish Province.

Opening of des Taulettes in the Vallais as a nursing home for confreres with tuberculosis. In 1919 it will be replaced by the house at Montana.

The brothers\' novitiate is transferred from Donk to Baarle-Nassau in the Netherlands.

St Joseph's Parish, Peasley Cross, St Helens, is taken on by the Irish Province; because of its proximity to the port of Liverpool, it will also serve as a base…

Propaganda asks the Congregation to assume responsibility for the old colonial dioceses of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Reunion, as well as the Apostolic Prefectures of St. Pierre & Miquelon and French…

Spiritans take over parishes in the north ruined by the volcano of 1902: St. Pierre, Le Carbet, Fonds Saint-Denis, Morne Vert, Morne Rouge, Ajoupa-Bouillon, Basse Pointe, Macouba and Grand-Rivière.

The senior scholasticate opens at Louvain. Until now, candidates from Belgium did their novitiate and studies in France.

Propaganda confides the diocese to the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Mgr. Pierre Genoud is the first bishop, from 1913 to 1945. In 1910 there were 2 Spiritan priests, in…

Opening of the Junior seminary of the Canadian Missions and the secondary school of St. Alexandre at Hull, Quebec. There are 5 students at the start. Teaching is in both…

The founding of the junior seminary of Saint-Alexandre de la Gatineau. The next day, Père Joseph Burgsthaler arrives with a group of European junior seminarians. This is the realisation of…

Fr. Joseph Schmodry becomes the pioneer of Spiritan missionaries to African-Americans in the Deep South at Alexandria, Louisiana; many others in the southern States are to follow.

Opening of the first noviciate of the Dutch-Belgian Province at Louvain. There are 9 novices from Holland and 5 from Belgium. The novice master is Père Charles Luttenbacher.

Kimmage Manor, Whitehall Road, Dublin is acquired by Fr John Murphy, Provincial. The first clerical Spiritan noviciate in Ireland is inaugurated with Fr Michael Kelly as master of novices. A…

Foundation of Saint-Joseph de Lubunda (Mgr. Callewaert, Pères Windholtz, Ferry and Brangers: Frères Euloge. Constantin, Bruno and Gerlacus).

Foundation of the mission of Lubunda and erection of the Prefecture Apostolic of Northern Katanga.The new Prefect, Père Callewaert, resides at Lubunda.

The Spiritan College in Pittsburgh is now Duquesne University.

M. Augagneur. Governor General of Madagascar, forbids Malagasy children to attend the same schools as the Europeans and those of mixed blood; he later leaves Madagascar "to the great delight…

Publication of the decree by which all the moveable and immovable goods of religious congregations, both in Portugal and in her overseas territories, are confiscated. As a consequence, all the…

The Apostolic Vicariat of Kilimanjaro is set up and P. Alois Munsch is named bishop.

Pius X declares the heroicity of virtues of François Libermann. Henceforth, he will have the title of "Venerable".

Proclamation of the heroicity of virtues of François Libermann by Pope Pius X.

Belgium/Holland

Erection of Vice-Province of Belgium and the Netherlands (including Luxembourg). The first superior of this new circumscription is Père Sébire.

Erection of the Prefecture Apostolic of Tefé: Dom Barrat is the first Prefect.

Death of P. Joseph Eigenmann, the great builder of the Province of Portugal. Nearly all the work of building the Province prior to the revolution of 1910 was due to…

Central African Republic

Père Pierre Cotel becomes the first Prefect Apostolic of Oubangui-Chari.

The Spiritan property of St. Alexandre de la Gatineau is legally incorporated by the parliament of Quebec under the title of "The Agricultural and Industrial Corporation of the Missionaries of…

Foundation of the mission of Kongolo by Frs. Villetaz and Brangers and Br. Euloge.

As a result of the Constitution "Sapiens Consilio" of Pius X, the Congregation will depend henceforth on the Congregation for Religious for its religious life and on the Propaganda Fide…

First Spiritan missionary calendar produced. It was eventually printed on their own press at Knechtsteden.

Shipwreck of the "Saint-Joseph" between Ngazobil and Dakar, resulting in the death of Bishop Alphonse Kunnemann, Vicar Apostolic of Senegal (1901-1908).

St. Pierre & Miquelon

Opening of the College of St. Christopher at the request of Mgr. Le Roy.

On 24 December, Castlehead in Grange-over-Sands becomes the first Spiritan property owned by the Congregation in Britain. On 27 December, the community at Prior Park arrives to take up residence…

The Spiritans return to the Congo. The first group consists of Père Callewaert (Belgium), Père Villetaz (Switzerland) and Pères Brangers and Viel (France). They start the mission at Kindu.

The Congregation hands over Collège Fisher in the Azores to the Salesians. It had been founded in 1892 at the request of the Fisher family.

Ordination of the first African-American member of the Congregation, Fr. Joseph A. Burgess.

The Apostolic Vicariat of French Lower Congo changes its name to the Apostolic Vicariat of Loango. The bishop is Mgr. Jean Derouet.

As a result of the law separating Church and State, nurseries, orphanages, hospices and prison infirmaries are closed and 100 sisters are left without work.

From July to September, the plague dev-astated Mahajanga and Mahabibo. Many houses were burnt down: at least half of Mahabibo and one fifth of Mahajanga are reduced to ashes.

St. Pierre & Miquelon

Spiritans leave the archipelago in 1793 after refusing the oath of the Revolution, returning only in 1814. They leave again in 1882 and return in1907.

Mgr. Xavier Vogt becomes Vicar Apostolic of the New Vicariat of Central Zanzibar. He establishes his residence in Bagamoyo. The new Vicariat has 30 priests, 20 brothers and 13.600 Christians.…

A junior seminary opens at Weert with 38 students. This is the first Spiritan house in the Netherlands.

Opening of a noviciate at Norwalk, CT; a senior seminary follows in 1910. They will serve the Congregation until the 1970s, although the noviciate is transferred to Ridgefield in 1922.

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