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Netherlands
Netherlands
The first lay associate signs a contract with the Congregation on leaving for Tanzania. Another follows shortly afterwards.
June 9, 1990
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Netherlands
A new missionary awareness team is set up in Eindhoven.
August 7, 1983
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Netherlands
Closure of junior seminary at Weert. The senior scholasticate also closes at Gemert, because of the small number of students; those remaining attend the faculties of Heerlen, Nijmegen and Amsterdam.
July 10, 1972
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Netherlands
The last session of the Provincial Chapter at Gemert which had begun in 1969. The Chapter opts for a collegial administration with a pro-vincial team of 5 members.
May 4, 1970
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Netherlands
Baarle Nassau is closed because there are no more candidates to be brothers. The noviciate is transferred to Gemert. The junior seminary at Weert produces novices for the last time.
September 12, 1967
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Netherlands
Inauguration of the Theological Institute of Eindhoven (TIE) in which the Spiritan scholastics of Gemert take part.
September 20, 1966
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Netherlands
The junior seminary at Weert is officially recognised by the State as a secondary school.
April 28, 1958
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Netherlands
A seminary for late vocations opens at Hettem.
September 23, 1957
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Netherlands
Opening of the Africa Museum at Berg en Dal. It receives a large number of visitors and becomes an important means of spreading missionary awareness.
May 16, 1954
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Netherlands
A few Brothers and Fathers move into a new house at Berg en Dal. It will be used as a community for those studying at the university.
November 6, 1953
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Netherlands
The Prefecture Apostolic of Tefé in Amazonia (Brazil) is confided to the Dutch Province. Mgr. Jouke de Lange is named the first Prefect. Fourteen young Dutch Spiritans, priests and brothers,…
July 12, 1946
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Netherlands
Re-opening of the junior seminary at Weert, the senior scholasticate at Gemert and, a little later, the houses at Baarle Nassau and Gennep for the brothers. Around 116 Priests and…
September 10, 1945
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Netherlands
The area of Doumé in the east of Cameroon is confided to the Dutch Province; it becomes a new district, separated from Yaoundé. The first superior is Fr. Jacques Teerenstra,…
September 23, 1943
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Netherlands
Consecration of the new chapel of the "Kasteel" at Gemert.
April 8, 1936
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Netherlands
The erection of the Dutch Province, the 10th in the Congregation. Fr. Bernard Hilhorst is the first Provincial.
July 16, 1931
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Belgium/Netherlands
Belgian/Netherlands province was split into two provinces. Père Sébire, the superior before the division, becomes the first provincial of Belgium.
January 9, 1931
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Netherlands
The Castle of Gemert is definitively bought by the Spiritans. Rome December, 1988: The Post-Synodal Exhortation by Pope John Paul II on the vocation and mission of lay people in…
December 28, 1928
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Netherlands
The Belgian/Dutch Province buys an old office at Gennep belonging to the railway, known affectionately as "The Barracks"! It is used for the philosophers and, subsequently, for the novices.
October 4, 1926
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Netherlands
The French Jesuits finally leave the house in Gemert and it becomes a junior seminary for the Spiritans.
January 14, 1920
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Netherlands
The Spiritans move into the castle of Gemert as the previous Jesuit owners return to France.
September 19, 1916
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Netherlands
Opening of the first noviciate of the Dutch-Belgian Province at Louvain. There are 9 novices from Holland and 5 from Belgium. The novice master is Père Charles Luttenbacher.
September 21, 1911
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Belgium/Holland
Erection of Vice-Province of Belgium and the Netherlands (including Luxembourg). The first superior of this new circumscription is Père Sébire.
January 29, 1910
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Netherlands
A junior seminary opens at Weert with 38 students. This is the first Spiritan house in the Netherlands.
September 11, 1906
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Netherlands
First edition of the Spiritan missionary review, "The Messenger of the Holy-Spirit".
March 21, 1905
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Netherlands
The first Spiritan establishment in Holland, the Junior Seminary at Weert. It is in the old "de Roos" restaurant. The founder is Père Sébire and the first superior is Père…
September 2, 1904
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