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Belgium
Belgium
The Provincialate is transferred to Gentinnes and the bursar's office to Nijlen.
November 27, 1991
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Belgium
The first meeting of the European co-ordinators for Justice and Peace.
November 8, 1988
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Belgium
A house is bought at Blanden for the mission procure. Another house is purchased at Veltem-Beisem for the Provincialate, and the Spiritans leave Leuven.
November 2, 1980
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Belgium
Ordination of Père G. Connerotte. Since then, there have been no more ordinations for the Province.
June 25, 1977
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Belgium
The Provincialate is now at Leuven. The closure of houses means that confreres returning from Africa have to look for a chaplaincy or work in a parish outside community.
October 21, 1971
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Belgium
Building starts on the "Kongolo Memorial" at Gentinnes. It will be inaugurated five years later in the presence of the King and Queen of Belgium. On the walls are commemorated…
June 24, 1963
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Belgium
Up until the separation of Belgium and Holland in 1931, there were many common formation houses: Lier, Gentinnes, Leuven, Gemeert, Weert, Donk, Baarle-Nassau, Bonsecours, Gennep and Inglemunster. After the split,…
April 26, 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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Belgium
The "Holy Ghost Fathers" are legally incorporated into Belgium.
April 22, 1922
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Belgium
The school at Lierre is taken up again as well as the senior scholasticate at Leuven. The novices go to Orly. The French Spiritans leave Gentinnes which then becomes a…
June 13, 1919
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Belgium
The brothers\' novitiate is transferred from Donk to Baarle-Nassau in the Netherlands.
February 9, 1913
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Belgium
The senior scholasticate opens at Louvain. Until now, candidates from Belgium did their novitiate and studies in France.
February 16, 1912
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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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Belgium
The Congregation is given a huge house and garden at Lier by M. Wégimont, a rich business man, to be used as a Junior Seminary.
October 28, 1900
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