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

January 11, 1831

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.

September 6, 1827

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…

December 24, 1826

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…

November 6, 1826

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…

August 21, 1824

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.

January 22, 1822

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.

January 29, 1819

Death of L'Abbé Legrand, the Prefect Apostolic.

January 17, 1818

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.

September 13, 1816

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…

February 3, 1816

Young Jacob Libermann celebrates his Bar-Mitzva.

St. Pierre & Miquelon

The Treaty of Paris. Spiritans return to the archipelago.

February 18, 1814

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…

February 28, 1805

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

Independence of Haiti.

January 1, 1804

"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.

January 17, 1793

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;…

January 13, 1793

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…

September 10, 1792

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.…

January 27, 1779

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

January 18, 1779

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.

The Congregation of the Holy Spirit, having been put in pastoral charge of Guyane, sends 4 priests from its seminary.

November 3, 1775

The Ordination of Joseph-Mathurin Bourg, a product of the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit in Paris, by Mgr. Briand at Montreal. He is sent to Arca-dia as Vicar for the whole territory.

September 19, 1772

St. Pierre & Miquelon

Mgr Julien Becquet, is made Prefect Apostolic of St. Pierre et Miquelon, Préfet apostolique de St Pierre & Miquelon. He is succeeded by 13 other Prefects up until 1970.

January 18, 1767

Père François Becquet succeeds Père Bouïc after his long period as Superior General (1710-1763). He will lead the Congregation right up to the eve of the French Revolution (1788) and…

St. Pierre & Miquelon

Père Manach, the first Prefect Apostolic, failed to arrive at the islands because of unfavourable winds. He ended up in the West Indies.

Arrival of the first Spiritan at Gorée, Jean-Baptiste Demanet.

September 12, 1763

St. Pierre & Miquelon

The Treaty of Versailles. The only remaining French possession in North America is St. Pierre et Miquelon. In the same year, a Prefecture Apostolic is created and confided to the…

January 9, 1763

Fr. Paulinus Ezike is killed during the civil war. Ordained in 1966, he was killed during an air raid.

January 9, 1763

The death of the third successor of Poullart des Places, M. Louis Bouic, after directing the Congregation for 53 years.

January 2, 1763

Père Louis Bouic buys a property in the rue des Postes, (30, rue Lhomond) Paris, for the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit. They move in on January 1st, 1732.

Death of Père Pierre Caris. He was the bursar of the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit for 45 years: "This poor priest of outstanding virtue and regarded by all as a saint"…

The death of Jean-Baptiste Faulconnier, the first student of Poullart des Places.

December 17, 1747

First recorded presence of a Spiritan in what is now the USA: Père Pierre Maillard at Boston.

Père Le Loutre, formed in the spirituality of Poullart des Places, devotes himself totally to the cause of the Acadians in present-day Nova Scotia, both before and after their forced…

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