Posts

Filter

Type

Tag

Sort by last posted

817-864 of 1973

1
...
17
18
19
...
42

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.

Guinée Conakry

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…

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. XXVII, p. 378

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.

817-864 of 1973

1
...
17
18
19
...
42