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Province of Madagascar: Enlarged Council
The Spiritan Province of Madagascar is holding its Enlarged Provincial Council, from the 26th to the 31st of July. There are about 50 members of originaly from this province, and…
July 27, 2026
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Spiritan International Newsletter nº 6 - October 2023
Editorial | Kenneth Okoli Environmental injustice | Jean-Marc Sierro The Flamboyants Clinic in Mampikoni | Théodore Pierre The Good Samaritan Hospital in Tangulbei | Maxwell Atuguba The fight against obstetric…
October 1, 2023
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Spiritan Education Forum June 2021
Olkokola Vocational Training Centre, Arusha, Tanzania The Province of Madagascar in the streets of Antananarivo IN GABON — A Home for the Homeless: C.E.M.I
June 1, 2021
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Madagascar
A Spiritan archive is opened on the feast of Pentecost at Maison Libermann in Antanima-landu (Majunga), centre of our operations in Madagascar. The diocese has its own separate archives elsewhere.
June 4, 1995
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Madagascar
Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo at Tananarive. A delegation from the diocese of Mahajanga takes part in the ceremonies.
April 28, 1989
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Madagascar
The cyclone "Kamisy" devastates the town of Mahajanga and the surroundings. Con-siderable damage to the cathedral and bishop's house. Also much damage in Amborovy.
April 11, 1984
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Indian Ocean Foundation
The first professions of the new Foundation: 3 from Mauritius and 2 from Madagascar.
August 11, 1983
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Madagascar
The first Spiritan formation house opens in Madagascar- Foyer Laval at Tananarive.
September 18, 1982
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Indian Ocean Foundation
A meeting of young Mauritians and Malagaches in Reunion island.
August 7, 1980
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Indian Ocean Foundation
3 Malagaches and 2 Mauritians ask to become Spiritans. As a result, the superiors of the three Districts (Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion) meet several times with a view to starting…
October 23, 1978
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Madagascar
L'Abbé Armand Razafindratandra is consecrated bishop of Majunga in the Cathedral square.
July 2, 1978
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Madagascar
Riots between Bestsirebaka and people of the Comores result in the death 1,400 Comorians at Mahajanga. The government of the Comores repatriates 14,500 of its nationals by plane and boat.
December 31, 1976
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CSSP-Documentation, N°2
Septembre 1970, N°2 Problèmes du clergé en Afrique et À Madagascar --(p.1)Trois préoccupations dominantes --(p.1)A propos des travaux du symposium concernant le clergé, un groupe de prêtres d'afrique occidentale francophone…
September 15, 1970
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Madagascar
An inter-denominational prayer service took place in the cathedral of Majunga, marking the beginning of the ecumenical movement in the country.
January 23, 1964
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Madagascar
The President of the Republic, Philibert Tsiranana, opens Collège St. Gabriel and bestows a national decoration on Frère Guillaume Perrocheau, the Director of the school.
October 27, 1962
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Madagascar
The seminary of St. Paul re-opens at Amborovy with 24 students. It is joined to the Teachers’ college run by the Brothers of St. Gabriel.
October 5, 1954
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Madagascar
The Spiritan Sisters leave Maha-janga. They had arrived there in May, 1927.
July 31, 1954
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Madagascar
Ernest Ramiaramanisa is ordained priest by Mgr. Wolff in the church of Mahabibo, the first Madagascan priest from the Vicariat Apostolic of of Mahajanga.
August 15, 1943
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Madagascar
Apostolic Vicariate of Mahajanga is cut off from a territory in the north to form the Prefecture Apostolic of Ambanja (a name given to it in 1938).
January 26, 1938
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Madagascar
Mgr. Pichot receives the vows of the first sisters at Maevatanana after a noviciate of 7 years!
May 16, 1937
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Madagascar
Mgr. Pichot presides over the taking of the habit by the first 9 young girls to join the diocesan congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mahajanga.
June 2, 1930
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Madagascar
The Vicariat Apostolic of Mahajanga is created from the western part of the Vicariat of North Madagascar. Père Paul Pichot, the Vicar General of Mgr. Fortineau, is named as Bishop…
March 25, 1925
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Madagascar
M. Augagneur. Governor General of Madagascar, forbids Malagasy children to attend the same schools as the Europeans and those of mixed blood; he later leaves Madagascar "to the great delight…
March 21, 1911
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Madagascar
From July to September, the plague dev-astated Mahajanga and Mahabibo. Many houses were burnt down: at least half of Mahabibo and one fifth of Mahajanga are reduced to ashes.
April 16, 1907
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Anne-Marie Javouhey to Sister Claire of Madagascar
I really admire the way Providence works. Imagine him choosing us country bumpkins for such a wonderful mission! It's his work so he will give us the grace to succeed.…
July 15, 1900
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Jacques Laval to Libermann, 1844. N.D.VI, 515-517
This is the fruit of three years work: about 250 instructed and baptised, both Madagascans and Mozambicans, around 350 first communions, nearly all old people. Nearly all have persevered, apart…
June 4, 1900
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Madagascar
Arrival of Mgr. François-Xavier Corbet and Père Georges Leportier, his Vicar General.
December 13, 1898
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Madagascar
Mgr. Alexandre Le Roy agrees to send missionaries to Madagascar.
April 5, 1898
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Madagascar
A Jesuit, Père Chervalier, ministers for a few months at Mahajanga but there is still no church. There have been two Protestant churches there since 1874, one at Rova and…
February 28, 1894
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C.S.Sp.
M. Monnet, the 10th Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, leaves Paris for his Apostolic Vicariat in Madagascar, having resigned on November 22, 1848, in favour of…
May 14, 1849
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Holy Heart of Mary
François Libermann, the superior of the Missionaries of the Holy Heart of Mary, writes to Cardinal Fransoni at the Propaganda proposing a union of his Congregation with that of the…
July 7, 1848
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C.S.Sp.
M. Monnet, the Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, is proposed to Rome as Vicar Apostolic of Madagascar.
July 3, 1848
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Madagascar
Having received a letter describing the climate of the island of Nossy-Bé as "unhealthy and debilitating", Libermann postpones a decision to send some of his missionaries to Madagascar.
May 15, 1845
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