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The Vicariat of Nyasa is entrusted to the White Fathers. Six years later, the Prefecture of Shire in the southern half of the country is given over to the Mont-fort…

Brazil Amazonas

The Congregation leaves its task in the Seminary of Belém and starts to work with the Indians and rubber-planters from its centre at Tefé.

The mission of Tefé begins with German confreres, including brothers.

Opening of the 6th General Chapter in the noviciate at Orly. There are 54 capitulants. For the first time, the Chapter works with commissions. Mgr. Leon Le Roy is elected…

Start of a clerical noviciate at Quinta de Baixo, Sintra.

Opening of the junior seminary at Knechtsteden by Fr. Amandus Acker. First group of German confreres leave for the Prefecture Apostolic of Tefé in Brazil.

Opening of a Spiritan scholasticate in a former convent of the Hermits of St. Augustine. It will cater for both junior and senior seminarians.

At the request of the Countess of Camarido, the Congregation takes on the work of spiritual assistant in a refuge for the poor that she had founded. A new Spiritan…

A Jesuit, Père Chervalier, ministers for a few months at Mahajanga but there is still no church. There have been two Protestant churches there since 1874, one at Rova and…

Tthe first Trinidadian is professed in the Congregation: Henri Pollonais takes his vows, under the name of Brother Rupert, in Pittsburgh, USA.

Mgr. Prosper Augouard, Vicar Apostolic of Oubanghi (residing at Brazzaville) starts the mission of Saint-Paul des Rapides at Bangui.

The review "Portugal em Africa" is launched with the aim of "making people more aware of the colonies and of the future of Portugal in Africa".

The Spiritans are expelled from the mission of Guyane.

Fr James Browne, who was a delegate at the General Chapter in Paris in 1892, is appointed to succeed Fr. Blanchet as Vicar Apostolic of Sierra-Leone. A remarkably apostolic man,…

Ordination of the first two priests to come from the seminaries of Landana and Loango: Louis de Gourlet and Charles Maonde.

Père Alexandre Le Roy is appointed Vicar Apostolic of Gabon. Ordained at Coutances in France on October 9th he arrives in Gabon on 26.03.1893.

The General Council accepts the proposal of the Fisher family to found a college at Ponta Delgada in the Azores.

On the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Archbishop of Braga approves the statutes of the Association of Prayer and Good Works for the Conversion of the Black…

The Spiritans hand over the missions of Boma and Nemlao to the Scheut Fathers.

Fr. Gommendinger starts the Kilimanjaro mission. Père Le Roy begins work in Mombasa where a group of Christians had been killed in 1630.

Foundation in Mombasa in Kenya (Vicariat Aposotlic of North Zanguebar). The mission of Bura is started soon afterwards.

The Spiritan Community abandons Ballarat. This means that the Congregation will have no province in Australia. "Your fathers have made a mistake in withdrawing from the college", writes Cardinal Moren…

Holy Ghost missionaries open a mission at Kilema, the first at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Profession of the first religious sisters from Gabon, in the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception of Castres.

Opening of a senior scholasticate at Sintra for philosophy and the first year of theology. Fr. Rooney is in charge.

The Government officially recognises the work of the brothers at Sintra, creating a colonial school of agriculture, which will also train catechists, primary and technical school teachers to work as…

Spiritans take charge of the first black parish in Philadelphia; St. Peter Claver. Many more will be taken on subsequently.

Père Blanchet brings the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny to the town of Bonthe, some 50 miles south of Freetown in the creeks. It is the first station outside…

Tana River foundation and the first baptism in modern times in Mombasa (Vicariat Apostolic of North Zanguebar).

Twelve Spiritans from Ireland arrive in Ballarat, Victoria, to take charge of a school, Holy Ghost College. Three years later, the fathers hand over the school to the Irish Christian…

Père Gebhard Eigenmann (1841-1910), born at Rorschach in German-speaking Switzerland, becomes the first Provincial of Portugal.

The death of P. Charles Duparquet at Loango in the Congo. With his vision and capacity for dialogue, he played a decisive part in the foundation of the Portuguese Province…

The first conferring of the habit at the noviciate of Sintra.

Fr. Patrick McDermott becomes pastor of St. Benedict the Moor in Pittsburgh, the first parish for African-Americans entrusted to the Congregation and the forerunner of many others.

Erection of the Vicariate Apostolic of Congo. Four Scheutist priests arrive in September in Zaire. They will soon take over Nemlao and Boma again.

The last Spiritans leave India.

A formation house for brothers is started at Sintra. The first director is Fr. Christopher Rooney from Ireland.

The Holy See divides the Prefecture of Zanguebar: Southern Zanguebar is entrusted to the Benedictines, the Spiritans retain the northern section.

Père Picarda is appointed Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia. He arrives on November 14th and starts the pilgrimage of Our Lady of Deliverance at Popagine on December 29th, later to become…

Foundation of the mission of Brazzaville by Pères Prosper Augouard, Georges Schmitt and Frère Savinien Weckmann. Five years later, work is begun on the cathedral. Rome July, 1927: Following the…

The communities of Braga and Porto become the Vice-Province of Portugal; the first superior is Père Eigenmann.

Foundation of the mission of St. Paul of Kasaï at Kwamouth (Mgr. Augourd, Père Sand and Frère Savinien). The Spiritans leave Kwamouth in 1887.

A decree from the Congregation for Saints in Rome approves the writings of François Libermann, adding that "it is rare that an examination arrives at such a favourable conclusion".

First Spiritan activity in Brazil. The first seven to arrive started the Colege of Mt. Carmel where they taught. They also did pastoral work in the surrounding area- catechesis, confessions…

Brazil Amazonas

The Spiritan community of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at Bélem, Para, (7 priests, 3 brothers and 1 student) opens a college. 116 students are enrolled for the first year:…

Fr Joseph Lutz and his Spiritan companions sign an agreement with the Chief of Onitsha, Obi Anazonwu, for a piece of land close to the River Niger; this was to…

Père Joseph Lutz, after four years in present day Sierra Leone and Guinée, led the first group of Spiritans to Nigeria. They start a mission at Onitsha and in 1893…

Frs. Blanchet and Lorber go to Monrovia at the request of the Liberian Administration to reestablish the Mission there. Fr Blanchet returns once more to Freetown and continues his work…

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