Senegal 1822 - Arrival of M"re 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. | Senegal

Deux Guinées 1842 - Rome appoints Bishop Barron as Prefect Apostolic of Guinée. | Guinea

Germany 1852 - The first candidate from Germany is received into the Congregation by Francis Libermann, Franz-Josef Düllemann from Neheim-Hüsten. He had already begun his theological studies in Paderborn. He is or-dained priest in Paris in1854 and teaches philosophy at Notre-Dame du Gard. He dies in Martinique in 1892 where he was involved in education. | Germany

Brazil South East 1989 - Spiritans leave the diocese of Jales in the State of São Paolo where they have been working for the last 13 years. | Brazil

"In 1733, the Spiritans obtained access to the Far East when Fr. Guillaume Rivoal was sent to Cochin China by the Foreign Missions Society. Others followed. How many is difficult to determine, but 23 years later in 1756, the Spiritan missionary in China, Peter Kerverhé wrote to Fr. Darragon, then one of the directors of the Foreign Mis-sions Society and himself also a former student of the Holy Ghost Seminary, that 4 of the 6 bishops of the Foreign Missions in the Far East were Spiritans" (Henry Koren: "To the Ends of the Earth", p. 35).