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Poland
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.
25 Mar 1925
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Madagascar
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…
25 Mar 1925
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South Africa
Arrival of the first group of Spiritans in Kroonstad.
21 Aug 1924
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Nigeria
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…
29 Jun 1924
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Gambia
The first Gambian priest, Fr. J. Mendy, is ordained at (Bathurst) Banjul by Mgr. Le Hunsec, Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia.
22 Jun 1924
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Cameroon
Arrival of Frère Blaise; he will work there for the next 54 years.
4 Apr 1924
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South Africa
Appointment of the new Prefect Apostolic of Kroonstad, Mgr. Leon Klerlein.
24 Mar 1924
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Guinée Conakry
Père Orcel prints the first Coniagui catechism with the Sunday Gospels. Père Leclerc begins the seminary at Dixinn.
23 Mar 1924
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Ireland
Joseph Shanahan founds the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary to assist him in his work with the women of Nigeria.
7 Mar 1924
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Daniel Brottier in "France Illustrée", 19 January, 1924
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…
19 Jan 1924
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Daniel Brottier, talking to the staff on his arrival at Auteuil, 19.11.1923
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…
19 Nov 1923
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France
Opening of the house of philosophy at the Abbaye Blanche, Mortain.
21 Sep 1923
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Cameroon
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.
7 Sep 1923
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Rome
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…
1 Jun 1923
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Haiti
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…
6 Apr 1923
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Trinidad
German personnel to Trinidad: Fr. Leimann returns and Brothers Benno and Florian are sent on loan. Fr. Leonard Graff remains there until the 1960s.
3 Apr 1923
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Germany
Death of Fr. Armandus Acker (born in Weyersheim, Alsace 24.04.1848). He is the founder of the German Province.
30 Mar 1923
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Portugal
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…
24 Nov 1922
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Congo Kinshasa
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.
17 May 1922
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Belgium
The "Holy Ghost Fathers" are legally incorporated into Belgium.
22 Apr 1922
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Angola
The Portuguese government allows brothers to enter the country, on condition that they do not work in groups.
18 Mar 1922
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Sierra Leone
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.
8 Mar 1922
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USA
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.
11 Oct 1921
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Ireland
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…
7 Sep 1921
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Gabon
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.
30 Mar 1921
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Guinée Conakry
Thanks to a lessening in the militant anti-clericalism of recent times, the Spiritans are able to move ahead with their schools programme.
24 Mar 1921
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Canada
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.
19 Mar 1921
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Makurdi
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…
14 Mar 1921
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Germany
Founding of the Mission Society of the Holy Ghost.
21 Feb 1921
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Poland
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\"…
6 Feb 1921
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Portugal
The Province is canonically erected.
2 Feb 1921
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France
The Foundation of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit.
6 Jan 1921
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Cameroon
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…
10 Sep 1920
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France
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…
24 Apr 1920
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East Africa
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.
20 Apr 1920
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Germany
The junior seminary at Heimbach becomes the noviciate of the Province of Germany.
2 Apr 1920
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Switzerland
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…
14 Jan 1920
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Netherlands
The French Jesuits finally leave the house in Gemert and it becomes a junior seminary for the Spiritans.
14 Jan 1920
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Senegal
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.…
12 Jan 1920
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United Kingdom
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…
27 Dec 1919
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Portugal
Decree of Rodrigues Caspar, in the preparation of which the Spiritan, P. José Maria Antunes, collaborates. It acknowledges the value of missionary activity.
24 Dec 1919
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Portugal
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…
4 Sep 1919
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Portugal
P. Moisés Alves de Pinho is appointed Provincial of the Portuguese Province by Mgr. Le Roy.
19 Aug 1919
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Switzerland
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…
12 Jul 1919
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Guinée Conakry
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…
2 Jul 1919
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Belgium
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…
13 Jun 1919
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Senegal
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…
7 May 1919
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Gabon
Ordination of Frs. Gustave Bâtonnier, Jean Obame and Jean-Baptiste Adiwa.
4 May 1919
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