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Foundation of St Mary's College, by Frs. Victor Guilloux and Albert Sundhauser, due largely to the efforts of Mgr. George Talbot, domestic Prelate to Pope Pius IX. The courses are…

The Superior General signs a contract with Bishop Maupoint of Reunion in which the Congregation accepts "the mission of Zanzibar in its entirety".

Père Horner lands in Zanzibar with Père Baur and two brothers. Nearly all the first converts are freed slaves. The idea of Fr. Horner is to put these converts in…

The Vicariate of the Two Guineas is divided in two. Mgr. Kobès becomes the first bishop of Senegambia.

The Spiritans are invited by the Archbishop of Birmingham to accept a parish in his diocese. The offer is declined, as well as another request to take on the parish…

The Congregation takes on responsibility for East Africa and Zanzibar (The Prefecture Apostolic of Zanzibar). Bishop Maupoint becomes Apostolic Delegate for East Africa and Prefect Apostolic for the new Prefecture.

Brother Francis Carey is professed at Langonnet in France on 28 September and is immediately appointed to Chandernagor in India. He is the first Irish Spiritan to be sent to…

The Spiritans take on responsibility for East Africa and Zanzibar.

As a result of negotiations between Rome and the Congregation, including the intervention of Mgr. Maupoint C.S.Sp., Apostolic Delegate for East Africa, the Superior General (Schwindenhammer) agrees to take on…

The school at St. Marie now has between 73 and 80 students. Six have begun to study Latin with Mgr. Bessieux, when he is not cutting, clearing the ground, planting…

Jacques Laval to the Superior General,...

My health is still bad- a lack of energy, an ever-increasing state of nervousness. My big worry is that shortly I will no longer be able to celebrate Mass because…

Jacques Laval to the Superior General,...

I stick to the parlour where I do the job of door-keeper. This gives me the chance to give some help to those who come and go, which is also…

A Concordat with Rome is approved by the Government of Haiti. Henceforth, bishops will be appointed by the Head of State instead of by the Vatican.

The first edition of The Messenger of St. Joseph, the bulletin of the Archconfraternity of St. Joseph. It continues to this day.

Visit by Pope Pius IX to the French Seminary.

Père Armand Fava begins the mission in Zanzibar and asks for more missionaries.

The Vicariate Apostolic is restored to the Congregation. It is made up of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Bishop Kobes is placed in charge after the death of Mgr de…

St. Jean-Marie Vianney, Curé d'Ars, a...

When a person is led by a God of strength and light, he cannot be mistaken. The Holy Spirit is strength and light: it is he who enables us to…

St. Jean-Marie Vianney, curé d'Ars, a...

Without the Holy Spirit, we are like a stone you find on the road. Take a wet sponge in one hand and a little stone in the other; squeeze both…

By the Bull "In Sublimi", Pope Pius IX, at the request of the bishops of France, gives canonical approval to the French Seminary in Rome and confides it "in perpetuity"…

The first diocesan synod takes place.

Propaganda asks the Congregation to negotiate a concordat between Rome and the State of Haiti. Three priests are sent to help Mgr. Monetti, the Apostolic Delegate. He appoints Père Pascal…

Mgr. de Bresillac and the first five members of the Society of African Missions arrive in Freetown. Within six months, all are dead. They are buried in the Circular Road…

Four Sisters of Saint-Paul de Chartres go to the camp of Désirade for lepers. Sr. Elisa Brière will work there for the next 35 years.

Bishop Maupoint of Reunion asks his Vicar General, Père Armand Fava, to make an exploratory expedition to Zanzibar.

A property is bought at Cellule, Puy-de-Dôme, France; an imperial decree authorises the opening of a junior seminary for the colonies. It would serve as the scholasticate of the province…

Père Jean Lacombe makes his profession at rue Lhomond, Paris. Born of a Fulani mother at Gorée, he had been ordained priest by Mgr. Kobès in 1852. He becomes the…

Frère Grégoire dies at sea on the way home to France for medical treatment. A native of Bordeaux, he was in the first group of Libermann's missionaries to the west…

Admiral Protet installs the first French troops at Dakar, more than 10 years after the arrival of the first missionaries in the Cap Vert peninsular.

The Congregation acquires the Abbey of Langonnet. For many years, it will serve as a formation house for French, Irish and German students before becoming a retirement home for Spiritans.

A Motu Proprio of Pius IX gives the ruined church of Santa Chiara to the French Seminary. In the same year, they buy the old Poor Clare convent which is…

Having arrived on 01.03.1854, Père Duparquet begins Latin classes for several students. The only one to persevere is Guillaume Dorsay who becomes a Spiritan scholastic in France and dies at…

Jean Lacombe from Senegal is accepted as a novice by Mgr. Kobès at Dakar. He does his noviciate at Monsivry in France.

A decree from Rome raises the Congregation from a "Society of the Apostolic Life" to the rank of a "religious Congregation".

Père Lannurien dies of cholera. He had been the secretary of Libermann. The notes he made during his noviciate are an important source for the comments of Libermann made on…

Jacques Laval is joined by two more confreres: Fathers Bourget and Tanguy.

Arrival in Rome of Père Louis-Marie Barazer de Lannurien, "to establish a house of the Congregation and, if possible, a French seminary" (General Council 26.03.1853).

Père Ignace Schwindenhammer (aged 35) is elected Superior General. He will lead the Congregation until his death in 1881. The assembly which elects him is the first General Chapter of…

Mgr. Bessieux lives for two years at Dakar, from which he administers both the Vicariats of the Deux Guinées (Gabon) and Senegambia (Dakar) after Mgr. Kob's, his coadjutor, has returned…

The funeral of François Libermann, presided over by Fr. Desgenettes, the parish priest of Notre-Dame des Victoires, in the chapel of the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit (rue Lhomond).

Death of François Libermann at about 15.45, while the community is singing the Magnificat of the Vespers of the Feast of the Purification. Père Ignace Schwindenhammer takes over as interim…

Libermann gives his final testament: "Be fervent, always fervent... and above all, charity. Charity in Jesus Christ, by Jesus Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ... fervour, charity, unity in…

On his death bed after two days of reflection regarding his successor, Libermann says to Père Schwindenhammer, "I think you are the one who must sacrifice himself".

Francis Libermann receives the last sacraments from Père Le Vavasseur. He asks whom he wishes to lead the Congregation in his place.

The first candidate from Germany is received into the Congregation by Francis Libermann, Franz-Josef Düllemann from Neheim-Hüsten. He had already begun his theological studies in Paderborn. He is or-dained priest…

Gravely ill, François Libermann takes to his bed for the last time.

Libermann to Collin, 21.09.1851. NDXIII, p.293-297

Even though they throw themselves into their work with great dedication, the missionary, the superior and the one in charge of the mission become completely absorbed in the area for…

Bishop Collier writes to Libermann that he is no longer planning to confide the Seychelles mission to him because the British government does not want French missionaries in the islands.

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