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François Libermann, who has been in Rome since the beginning of January and is now abandoned by Maxime de la Brunière, submits his seven-page Memorandum on Foreign Missions to Mgr.…

Francis Libermann arrives in Rome, with Maxime de la Brunière, to submit his project for the Black People to Propaganda Fide.

Jacques Laval is ordained priest by Mgr. de Quélen, Archbishop of Paris. He will be parish priest of Pinterville in the diocese of Evreux for two and a half years…

L'Abbé Lambert of the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit is sent to the island of Gorée as parish priest. He writes the first catechism in the Wolof language; it will be used…

A violent epileptic fit in public. The last took place at Strasbourg on May 19, 1846.

Libermann, to Carron, Rennes, 03.02.1838, L.S.I...

May the divine Child preserve in your soul his life of love and self-giving. He alone is our all; let us be lost and absorbed in him. He is hidden…

Libermann arrives at Rennes as assistant director of the Eudiste noviciate; he takes part in the opening retreat.

Ordination to the priesthood of Père Jean-Benoît Truffet. In 1846 he is ordained bishop at Our Lady of Victories in Paris, the first Vicar Apostolic of the new Congregation of…

Jacques Laval, a medical doctor, enters the seminary of Saint-Sulpice to study theology; a few miles away, François Libermann is studying philosophy at Issy.

Libermann to Leray, 24.07.1834. LS I,...

I am convinced, my dear friend, that the ultimate consummation of our love that will take place in heaven is foreshadowed in this life in the Eucharist, this masterpiece of…

M. Amable Fourdinier is elected the 7th Superior of the Spiritans and the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit. On November 22nd, 1839, he is asked by the government to train priests with…

The seminary of rue des Postes (later rue Lhomond) is turned into a hospital during the cholera epidemic in Paris. The army return it to the Congregation three years later,…

François Libermann has a vision of Jesus at St. Sulpice on the Feast of the Priesthood of Christ; he interprets it as meaning that he himself is excluded from the…

The death of Lazarus Libermann, the father of François.

The island of Gorée becomes a centre for the struggle against slavery.

On this day, the day before he is due to receive the sub-diaconate, François Libermann has a serious epileptic attack in the room of his spiritual director, Père Cabon. Ordination…

François Libermann, 10 months after his conversion, is admitted to the seminary of Saint-Sulpice. He had received the tonsure at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on June 9th.

Less than six months after his baptism, François Libermann receives the tonsure in the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris as a cleric for the diocese of Strasbourg.

François Libermann is confirmed in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

On this Sunday, Jacob Libermann is baptised in the chapel of the Seminary of the Missions (an annex of St. Stanislas) by l'Abbé Augé, the director of Stanislas. He takes…

Jacob Libermann arrives in Paris and meets M. Drach and his brothers who have become Christians. M. Drach finds him a little room at the top of Collège Stanislas; it…

Canonical election of Jacques Bertout as the 6th Superior General. It is he who restores the Congregation and the Seminary of the Holy Spirit after the French Revolution. He is…

Baptism in secret of Samson Liber-mann (brother of Jacob) and his wife Babette. Their conversion has a profound effect on Jacob and on his own religious development.

Nicolas Warnet, the future 8th Superior General of the Spiritans, is sent to work in Saint-Denis; amongst the children in the catechism class, he notices young Frédéric Le Vavasseur whom…

Departure of the first Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny for Guyane.

Arrival of Mère Anne-Marie Javouhey in Senegal. She immediately begins working for vocations and in 1827, three future priests set out for studies in Paris: Frs. Moussa, Fridoil and Boilat.

Arrival of 7 Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny for the hospital of Saint-Louis as well as 2 Senegalese priests sent by the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit.

L'abbé Baradère, a Spiritan and parish priest of Saint-Louis, makes a journey to visit the Fulani and Moors.

Death of L'Abbé Legrand, the Prefect Apostolic.

L'Abbé Guilloteau, the new Apostolic Administrator of the island, arrives at St. Denis. He is the first Spiritan priest for Reunion, sent by M. Ber-tout, the superior of the Missionaries…

M. Bertout, the 6th Superior General (not yet canonically elected) rebuys the property in rue Lhomond that had been confiscated at the revolution 23 years previously.

By command of King Louis XVIII, the Congregation is re-established, having been suppressed at the French Revolution. This ruling is the basis of the legal status of the Congregation in…

Young Jacob Libermann celebrates his Bar-Mitzva.

St. Pierre & Miquelon

The Treaty of Paris. Spiritans return to the archipelago.

Napoleon signs the decree re-establishing the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, along with the Foreign Missions of Paris and the Priests of the Mission (Vincentians). But four years later, he…

The death of Jean-Marie Duflos, the 5th Superior General. His nephew, Jacques Bertout, returns from his exile in England and finds he is the only remaining Spiritan. His uncle tells…

Fr. Jean Moranville becomes the first Spiritan holding American citizenship.

Independence of Haiti.

"22nd of Germinal, Year X: The birth at Saverne in Alsace of Jägel (Jacob), the fifth son of Samson Libermann, Rabbi, (but who declares he was a trader during the…

Arrival (by accident!) of the first Spiritan in Martinique: M. François Legrand is deported from Guyane and becomes parish priest of Gros-Morne in Martinique from 1794 to 1807. He then…

From 1793-1794, several Spiritans settle in the USA after being expelled from Guyane.

St. Pierre & Miquelon

The two priests in charge of the islands of Miquelon and St. Pierre refuse to take the oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, introduced at the French Revolution;…

Père Jacques Bertout becomes the first known Spiritan to work in mainland Britain. He flees to England at the French Revolution and works somewhere in Yorkshire for the next 10…

Up to this date, French Spiritans have worked in St. Pierre and Miquelon and Acadia (Canada) as misionar-ies to the Indians or as seminary professors in Quebec City. But henceforth,…

The creation of the Prefecture Apostolic of Saint-Louis after the town had been re-taken by the French. Fr. Deglicourt was appointed as the first Prefect. He was joined by Frs.…

L'Abbé Glicourt (Spiritan) is made Prefect Apostolic of Saint-Louis in Senegal.

Departure from Le Havre for Cayenne (Guyane) of MM. Bertout (the future restorer of the Congregation) and de Clicourt, but they are ship-wrecked off the coast of Senegal (near St.…

Letters patent issued, giving the Semi-naire du Saint-Esprit pastoral responsibility for Guyane.

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