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Père René Lefebvre, the elder brother of Marcel, starts many social works in the country, especially for young people. The national football stadium of Libreville is named after him.

A property at Kilshane, Tipperary, is purchased in August and opens as a Novitiate for both clerics and brothers. It is able to accommodate 60 residents, novices and staff. Of…

Bishop John Wilson, Vicar Apostolic of Bagamoyo, is appointed to succeed Bishop O'Gorman in Sierra Leone. He is already in poor health and only spends two years in the country.…

Profession of the first sisters of the Filles de Marie in the Vicariat of Yaoundé. They are sent to Nkolavolo with two novices and a Spiritan sister.

First edition of the review 'Entre Nós', which in 1940 will become 'Acção Missionária'.

Mgr. Charles Heerey founds the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and builds Onitsha Cathedral.

Joseph Shanahan to Sister Columba, 20.02.1933. II, p.205

Strange to say I thought our Lord Himself nearer to me in Nigeria. The continued miracle of the visible effects of his Divine Grace in ourselves and in all those…

Seven Spiritans are appointed to The Gambia. Due to illness or death, they serve the mission for an average of only ten months.

The Holy See names an American citizen, Fr. Joseph Byrne, as Vicar Apostolic of Kilimanjaro in East Africa, a Vicariat it entrusts to the U.S. Province.

Episcopal ordination of P. Moisés Alves de Pinho, at Viana do Castelo, by Mgr. Le Hunsec, Superior General of the Congregation. He is accompanied on this trip by Père Daniel…

Consecration of the chapel of the community at Bydgoszcz by the Superior General, Mgr. Le Hunsec, accompanied by Père Daniel Brottier.

There are already 70 pupils and 3 teachers in the Catholic primary school in Makurdi town, only 2 years after the arrival of the German Spiritans.

The Province of the United States takes over responsibility for the Vicariat of Kilimanjaro. Two years later, Dutch Spiritans will be asked to run Bagamoyo.

Bishop O'Gorman resigns and dies in Switzerland in 1935.

The ordination of Georges Magloire who came from Les Saintes on the island.

Father Maupeou is mortally wounded by a polygamous Christian with whom he is in discussion. His attacker asks his forgiveness and the Spiritan blesses him as he dies.

P. Moisés Alves de Pinho is named Bishop of Angola and Congo and is ordained on the 17.07.1932 at Viana do Castelo. Prior to this he was Provincial for 13…

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 do Reino de Deus"

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).

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