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JPIC Newsletter nº 3, October 2016
Spiritan Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation and InterReligious Dialogue - GENDER CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPIRITAN JPIC - ALONGSIDE THE OPPRESSED IN GERMANY - LAY SPIRITAN MISSION IN BOLIVIA - WOMEN AND…
October 1, 2016
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TransCanada
After 22 years as the District of Ontario and 24 years as the Province of TransCanada, the Spiritans of the circumscription are thankful for the past and look to the…
December 18, 2000
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Kogi
Celebration at Okura of the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Spiritans in Nigeria. A souvenir booklet is produced entitled "50 Years of Canadian Spiritan presence in Nigeria: 1947-1997".
July 12, 1997
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TransCanada
Brottier House, a place of welcome for refugees, is opened in Toronto.
November 27, 1991
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TransCanada
The First English-speaking Canadian Spiritan students are sent to Papua New Guinea - Paul McAuley, followed by Neal Shank in January 1986.
October 11, 1985
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TransCanada
Neil McNeil Residence becomes the centre of the House of Spiritan Formation program (Laval House). Beginning of a seven-year resurgence in vocations.
August 7, 1981
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TransCanada
TransCanada Province begins work in Papua New Guinea (Frs. Kelly and Corrigan).
November 6, 1980
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Canada
An international noviciate is set up at Farnham.
June 27, 1980
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Canada
The first associates of the Canadian Province make their formal commitment.
May 3, 1979
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Canada
The first Spiritan Associates in the Province make their commitment: Maria and Conrad Voisard.
August 5, 1977
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Canada
The start of the international noviciate at Norwalk, serving the two Provinces in both Canada and the United States. In 1980, the noviciate moves to Farnham, Quebec.
August 4, 1977
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Trans-Canada
The District of Ontario becomes a Province. The superior, Fr. Michael Doyle, is named the first Provincial.
February 2, 1976
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TransCanada
The start of the Lay Association in Ontario. The first (VICS) Spiritan Mission Institute begins in Toronto.
October 22, 1974
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Trans-Canada
Beginnings of the Lay Spiritan Association in Ontario.
January 17, 1974
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Malawi
From 1973 to 1983, Spiritans from the Province of TransCanada join the Calgary diocese in a mission outreach to Malawi, Central Africa. At one point, five Spiritans and two diocesan…
October 16, 1973
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Trans-Canada
Spiritans join the Calgary diocese in a mission outreach to Malawi, where as many as five Spiritans and two Calgary Diocesan priests eventually worked together (until 1983).
February 3, 1973
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Canada
The community at Ste. Foy moves to 2121 rue de La Somme. A house in Hull opened the year before but it has to close in 1975. The Spiritan house…
January 24, 1973
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TransCanada
Two hospital chaplaincies are taken on: St. Joseph's, Hamilton, and St. Joseph's, Dundas.
June 5, 1970
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TransCanada
The Volunteer International Christian Service (VICS) is founded by Fr. Des McGoldrick.
May 6, 1970
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TransCanada
The Province sends missionaries to Brazil and to the native peoples of Alberta.
June 28, 1967
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Trans-Canada
A missionary outreach to Brazil begins with Fr. S. Meagher. Others go to work with the Native Peoples (Cree) of Alberta.
January 15, 1967
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Canada
The General Council erects the new community of the Holy Spirit in the place of the community of Daulac. The senior scholasticate moves there with a team of four fathers.…
June 12, 1958
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TransCanada
Irish Spiritans open a residence in Woodstock (Ontario) in Canada. This is the first step in the development of the new circumscription.
April 19, 1955
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TransCanada
Some Spiritans from the Irish Province arrive in Montreal en route for Woodstock, Ontario. The Irish Province has been asked to found an anglophone Canadian Province. The community of Woodstock…
October 17, 1954
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Canada
The start of the involvement of the Province in the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu on the occasion of the Marian year, 1954.
October 12, 1954
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Canada
Canada becomes a Province.
October 14, 1946
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Canada
Mgr. Le Hunsec creates the Province of Canada, with Père Louis Taché as Provincial. The provincial house is at Collège Saint-Alexandre. In the Province, there are 76 members: 44 fathers,…
March 31, 1946
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Canada
The senior scholasticate opens at Daulac (Montreal).
April 10, 1943
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Canada
Three young confreres make their consecration to the apostolate in the chapel of Saint-Alexandre; seven took the habit the previous month. The first Canadian postulant for the Spiritan sisters, Sister…
June 11, 1929
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Canada
First edition of the "Bulletin des Pères du Saint-Esprit". The College now has 13 fathers (including 2 Canadians), 13 brothers (1 Canadian), 5 Scholastics and 11 Sisters of the Sacred…
March 18, 1928
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Canada
The first four Canadian Spiritains are ordained: Pères Gawlick, Bériault, Chalifoux and Dolan. There are two novices at Grignon in France and three more are preparing to succeed them.
March 19, 1921
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Canada
The first successes in the baccalauréat. The Archbishop of Ottawa gives the tonsure to five scholastics.
June 29, 1917
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Mgr. Le Roy, December 1913. B.G. XXVII, p. 378
It is because of this great need (the number of Catholic immigrants coming to Canada) that we finally opened the Collège St. Alexandre last year. There are 120 students, aged…
December 1, 1913
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Canada
The Superior General, Mgr. Le Roy, arrives with a group of Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mormaison who will look after the domestic side of Collège St. Alexandre. On…
October 10, 1913
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Canada
Opening of the Junior seminary of the Canadian Missions and the secondary school of St. Alexandre at Hull, Quebec. There are 5 students at the start. Teaching is in both…
February 4, 1912
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Canada
The founding of the junior seminary of Saint-Alexandre de la Gatineau. The next day, Père Joseph Burgsthaler arrives with a group of European junior seminarians. This is the realisation of…
December 25, 1911
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Canada
The Spiritan property of St. Alexandre de la Gatineau is legally incorporated by the parliament of Quebec under the title of "The Agricultural and Industrial Corporation of the Missionaries of…
April 27, 1909
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Canada
Foundation of the community of Saint-Alexandre by Mgr. Le Roy. The future school of agriculture is constructed over the next two years.
June 11, 1905
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Canada
Purchase of the property of Alonso Wright, 1,631 acres of forest and arable land. It was made possible by a gift from Mme. Jules Lebaudy to set up an establishment…
February 21, 1905
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Canada
Alonzo Wright, 1,631 acres of forest and arable land on the river Gatineau close to Ottawa. It is made possible by a gift from Mme Jules Lebaudy, a rich benefactress,…
January 21, 1905
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Canada
Visit of Mgr. Le Roy to prepare for the establishment of Spiritans in Canada. The following year, Père Amet Limbour discovers the beautiful property of Alonso Wright on the banks…
May 1, 1903
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Canada
Arrival of the first 4 Sister Servants of the Holy Heart of Mary, founded by Père Delaplace, the secretary of Libermann.
October 9, 1892
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Canada
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,…
May 2, 1791
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Canada
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
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Canada
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…
April 23, 1738
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Canada
The first Spiritan missionary arrives in the Western hemisphere, Père François Frison de la Mothe and is stationed as a teacher at the Quebec seminary. He is followed in 1735…
January 17, 1732
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Canada
L'Abbé de l'Isle-Dieu becomes the Vicar General of Mgr. Dosquet; thanks to him, the seminary at Quebec receives staff from the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit in Paris. To show his gratitude,…
May 11, 1730
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