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Cf. Spiritual Letters, II, 341, 1839.

Try to keep your mind always free, bright and open. This openness of mind and heart is indispensable for acquiring a true interior spirit, it is essential that you be…

J. Gay, "Les Chemins de la Paix", p. 173

Listening calmly to what the Holy Spirit has to tell us and living intensely the love of Christ so as to be close to the poor- this is the essence…

Cf. Spiritual Letters, II, 208, 1839.

Never allow yourself to be discouraged by your weaknesses, and whenever you think you have committed some fault, reflect back gently on yourself, then present yourself before Our Lord in…

From the testimony of Fr. Jules Darmond C.S.Sp. and Mgr. Kabwé

Two or three minutes after the last priest had left the guardroom, there was the sound of repeated firing. It was about half past nine in the morning. In the…

Cf. Spiritual Letters, I, 6, 1830.

If we were children of the world, I would start by wishing you a happy new year, but since we are not children of this world and that we belong…

The southern part of Senegambia becomes a separate territory under the name of "Rivières du Sud". There is a plan to build a new capital in the island of Tumbo.…

Mgr. Adam ordains the first priest from Gabon at Saint Pierre de Libreville, André Raponda Walker. On July 30th, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the arrival of…

Bishop Allegeyer starts a mission at Simonsdale in Kikuyu country (Vicariate Apostolic of North Zanguebar).

First edition of the missionary magazine "Echo aus Knechtsteden" (which becomes "Echo aus den Missionen" in 1910; today the title is "Kontinente").

First mass in Nairobi at the new Railway Station. Beginning of Holy Family Parish. Foundation of St. Austin's Mission and the first planting of commercially successful coffee in Kenya (Vicariat…

Arrival of Mgr. François-Xavier Corbet and Père Georges Leportier, his Vicar General.

It is decided to set up a Senior Scholasticate for the Irish Province at St Joseph's, Rockwell. Among the eleven theological students is one Joseph Shanahan. The experiment lasts only…

Mgr. Alexandre Le Roy agrees to send missionaries to Madagascar.

Foundation of the mission school at Knechtsteden.

Official opening of a clerical noviciate at Cornwells Heights, near Philadelphia, with about ten novices. The house also serves as a senior seminary and from 1905 as a junior seminary.…

Mgr. Allgeyer is ordained bishop at Knechsteden, the first bishop of the German Province. At the same time, the Province was given its own mission territory in East Africa.

Profession of Brother Wilfried at Chevilly. He leaves immediately for Tefé where he will be the first German brother to work there.

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.

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