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St-Coeur de Marie

Episcopal ordination of Père Truffet as Vicar Apostolic of the Two Guinees by Mgr. Mioland, bishop of Amiens.

Rome appoints Bishop Barron as Prefect Apostolic of Guinée.

Edward Barron, John Kelly and Denis Pindar set out from the U.S. for Liberia.

Holy Heart of Mary

Opening of the noviciate at La Neuville, Amiens (France) with MM. Libermann, Le Vavasseur and Collin.

Holy Heart of Mary

Père Libermann, assisted by Frédéric Le Vavasseur, Eugène Tisserant and l'Abbé Desgenettes, celebrates the first Mass of the new Society at Notre Dame des Victoires in Paris.

Three days after his ordination, François Libermann celebrates Mass for the first time at the convent of the sisters of Louvencourt (near La Neuville).

François Libermann is ordained priest by Mgr. Miolland in his private chapel at Amiens. On the same day, Frédéric Le Vavasseur is ordained in Paris.

Arrival of Jacques Laval at Port-Louis. From the start, he worked totally for the black people.

Jacques Laval leaves London for Mauritius on board the "Tangora", in the company of Bishop Collier, Père Gilles O.S.B., Fr. Larkan (Irish) and L'Abbé Rovery (French).

Père Jacques Laval arrives in England on his way to Mauritius. After a short stay waiting for a ship in the East End of London, he finally sets sail on…

Libermann considers setting up a community in Strasbourg to gain access to Germany and Alsace.

François Libermann enters the Seminary of Strasbourg to prepare for his ordination.

Eugène Tisserant, co-founder of the Congregation of the Holy Heart of Mary, is ordained priest.

Libermann finishes his pilgrimage to Loretto and Assisi. It is a real pilgrimage, made between mid-November and mid-December, almost entirely on foot. It is also a retreat of abandonment to…

The first Senegalese priests are ordained in Paris by Mgr. Cuely, the Bishop of Carcassone: les Abbés Moussa, Fridoil and Boilat. Their early formation is directed by Mère Javouhey in…

Libermann to Luquet, 04.08.1840. NDII, p.124

In spiritual direction, it is a basic principle to avoid leading people to one's own ideas and ways of acting. Any attachment to this sort of thing can have disastrous…

Libermann to M. Gaudaire, 05.07.1840. NDI, p. 571

All decisions must be made according to principles but, at the same time, the principles have to be modified, explained and adapted to the actual situation in so far as…

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 p.409-412

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, p. 51-52

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.

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