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USA ia a Spiritan Province and is part of the Union of Circumscriptions of North America and the Caribbean (UCNAC).

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Spiritans in USA
2018-06-28

UCNAC Newsletter 2018
2018-03-22

33 Spiritan Communities:

USA-1	Bethel Park - Provincialate Holy Ghost Provincialate - Bethel Mission Office 6230 Brush Run Road BETHEL PARK, PA, 15102-2214	6.4ºC	Humidity: 87% Wind: 1.50m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 391m
USA-7	Bethel Park - Libermann Libermann Hall 6230 Brush Run Road BETHEL PARK, PA, 15102-2214	6.3ºC	Humidity: 81% Wind: 3.60m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 387m
USA-25	New York St. Mark the Evangelist 65 w, 138th Street NEW YORK, NY, 10037	9.1ºC	Humidity: 37% Wind: 2.10m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 5m
USA-27	Pittsburgh – Duquesne Laval Laval House Duquesne University PITTSBURGH, PA, 15282-0001	6.6ºC	Humidity: 87% Wind: 1.50m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 271m
USA-28	Pittsburgh – Duquesne Trinity Trinity Hall Duquesne University PITTSBURGH, PA, 15282-0001	6.6ºC	Humidity: 87% Wind: 1.50m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 265m
USA-30	Pittsburgh – St. Stephen Church St. Stephen Church PITTSBURGH, PA, 15207-1724	6.5ºC	Humidity: 81% Wind: 3.60m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 243m
USA-2	Arlington Our Lady Queen of Peace 2700 South 19th Street ARLINGTON, VA, 22204	11.8ºC	Humidity: 76% Wind: 5.10m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 59m
USA-3	Avondale 10928 West Granada Road AVONDALE, AZ, 85392-5433	28.8ºC	Humidity: 12% Wind: 2.10m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 307m
USA-4	Baltimore 2846 W. Lafayette Avenue BALTIMORE, MD, 21216	8.1ºC	Humidity: 75% Wind: 4.10m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 62m
USA-5	Baton Rouge St. Agnes Church 749 East Boulevard BATON ROUGE, LA, 70802-6306	26.2ºC	Humidity: 61% Wind: 6.20m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 15m
USA-6	Bensalem Holy Ghost Prep School 2429 Bristol Pike BENSALEM, PA, 19020	6.9ºC	Humidity: 52% Wind: 2.10m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 23m
USA-8	Center Ridge Saint Joseph's Church 3423 Catholic Point Road CENTER RIDGE, AR, 72027	16.4ºC	Humidity: 62% Wind: 2.60m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 215m
USA-9	Central Falls Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish 35 Clay Street CENTRAL FALLS, RI, 02863	7.8ºC	Humidity: 14% Wind: 4.60m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 25m
USA-10	Chicago – St Ambrose Saint Ambrose Church 1012 East 47th Street CHICAGO, IL, 60653	4.2ºC	Humidity: 55% Wind: 5.70m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 181m
USA-11	Danville Holy Family Convent On Montour Street DANVILLE, PA 17821	5.9ºC	Humidity: 32% Wind: 2.60m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 160m
USA-12	Dayton Our Lady of Grace 220 West Siebenthaler Avenue DAYTON, OH, 45405	7.4ºC	Humidity: 65% Wind: 6.70m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 272m
USA-13	Detroit Saint Mary's Parish 646 Monroe Avenue DETROIT, MI, 48226	5.4ºC	Humidity: 21% Wind: 4.60m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 182m
USA-14	Eaton Visitation of Blessed Virgin Mary 407 E. Main Street EATON, OH, 45320	7.7ºC	Humidity: 75% Wind: 5.70m/s Clouds: 40% Altitude: 316m
USA-15	Fontana Kaiser Permanente Medical Center 9961 Sierra Avenue FONTANA, CA 92335	24.2ºC	Humidity: 20% Wind: 3.10m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 345m
USA-16	Hattieville St. Mary Church 11 Kaufman Lane HATTIEVILLE, AR, 72063-8922	16.3ºC	Humidity: 55% Wind: 5.70m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 194m
USA-17	Helena St. Mary Church 123 Columbia Street HELENA, AR, 72342	17.2ºC	Humidity: 63% Wind: 5.10m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 59m
USA-18	Hemet - Laval Casa Laval P.O.Box 3509 HEMET, CA, 92546-3509	23.4ºC	Humidity: 20% Wind: 4.10m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 489m
USA-19	Hemet – Our Lady Our Lady of the Valley Church 780 S. State Street HEMET, CA, 92543-7163	23.4ºC	Humidity: 20% Wind: 4.10m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 492m
USA-20	Houston - SOMA Spiritan Office for Mission Advancement (SOMA) 1700 West Alabama Street HOUSTON, TX, 77098-2808	28.4ºC	Humidity: 58% Wind: 5.10m/s Clouds: 40% Altitude: 16m
USA-21	Houston – Saint Benedict Saint Benedict the Abbot 4025 Grapevine Street HOUSTON, TX, 77045-6320	28.5ºC	Humidity: 58% Wind: 5.10m/s Clouds: 40% Altitude: 16m
USA-22	Houston – Saint Mary St. Mary's Seminary 9845 Memorial Drive HOUSTON, TX, 77024	28.3ºC	Humidity: 58% Wind: 5.10m/s Clouds: 40% Altitude: 20m
USA-23	Houston - University University of St. Thomas 3800 Montrose Bvd HOUSTON, TX, 77006	28.3ºC	Humidity: 42% Wind: 2.10m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 16m
USA-24	Miami – Holy Redeemer Holy Redeemer Church 1301 N.W. 71th Street MIAMI, FL, 33147	26.5ºC	Humidity: 65% Wind: 4.10m/s Clouds: 40% Altitude: 3m
USA-26	Norwood 43, Lydon Street NORWOOD, MA, 02062-2703	7.3ºC	Humidity: 51% Wind: 7.20m/s Clouds: 75% Altitude: 57m
USA-29	Pittsburgh – Marian Manor Marian Manor 2695 Winchester Drive - Room B215 PITTSBURGH, PA, 15220	6.6ºC	Humidity: 87% Wind: 1.50m/s Clouds: 90% Altitude: 359m
USA-31	San Diego – St. Mary St. Mary Magdalene 1945 Illion Street SAN DIEGO, CA, 92110-1397	21.0ºC	Humidity: 49% Wind: 3.10m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 53m
USA-32	San Diego – University University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park, Unit 7184 SAN DIEGO, CA 92110-2492	20.8ºC	Humidity: 46% Wind: 4.60m/s Clouds: 1% Altitude: 73m
USA-33	Sarasota Sarasota Community 459 Beach Road SARASOTA, FL, 34242-1944	25.3ºC	Humidity: 78% Wind: 3.60m/s Clouds: 75% Altitude: 1m

1745	First recorded presence of a Spiritan in what is now the USA: Père Pierre Maillard at Boston. (U.S.A. 1745-04-23)
1793	From 1793-1794, several Spiritans settle in the USA after being expelled from Guyane. (U.S.A. 1793-01-17)
1804	Fr. Jean Moranville becomes the first Spiritan holding American citizenship. (U.S.A. 1804-03-09)
1841	Edward Barron, John Kelly and Denis Pindar set out from the U.S. for Liberia. (Deux Guinées 1841-12-15)
1844	The death of Louis Pindar (USA) at Capes des Palmes. (Deux Guinées 1844-01-02)
1847	The Propaganda Fide authorises the sending of Spiritan missionaries to the U.S.A. (USA 1847-12-24)
1872	Corporate involvement of the Congregation in the form of a vice-province begins when Fr. George Ott (of the German province) and two others sail for the USA to establish a community in Kentucky. When this fails, they move to Ohio. (USA 1872-11-07)
1874	Arrival of Fr. Joseph Strub and other Spiritans exiled from Germany as "Jesuit- related". Fr. Strub becomes the true founder of the Province and makes Pittsburgh the centre. Its purpose: pastoral care of foreign immigrants, educating aspirants in an open school or schools and work among African Americans. (U.S.A. 1874-01-14)
1877	The first Junior Seminary is started at Ross Manor: it transfers to Perrysville a few months later. (U.S.A. 1877-01-04)
1877	The first Junior Seminary starts at Ross Manor: it is transferred to Perrysville a few months later. (U.S.A. 1877-03-06)
1877	Opening of a junior seminary for American aspirants at Perrysville, Pa. (U.S.A. 1877-04-01)
1878	Fr. Strub obtains a property of 900 square miles near Morrilton, Arkansas. A brothers' community is opened and confreres build schools and churches throughout the region. The project comes to a halt in 1892 because of persistent tempests. (U.S.A. 1878-03-11)
1878	Frs. John Quinn and Michael Dunne arrive in Pittsburgh to teach in the newly opened High School. They are followed by Fr William Power, who is appointed the first rector. He is succeeded in that office by Fr. John T. Murphy in 1886 and by Fr Martin Hehir in 1899. In 1911, Fr Hehir succeeds in having Duquesne recognised as a University. (USA 1878-09-27)
1879	Despite dire warnings against accepting African-Americans as members of the Congregation, Fr. Strub courageously begins to admit some as postulant brothers in Arkansas. As a former missionary in Senegal, he has seen African Blacks become excel-lent religious and priests. (U.S.A. 1879-03-26)
1880	After two years, there are already 150 students in the upper school and the group of brothers expelled from Germany begins to build a large house in the "Golden Triangle" where the two rivers meet in the centre of Pittsburgh. (USA 1880-09-01)
1882	The college at Pittsburgh obtains a charter enabling it to confer degrees. (USA 1882-07-07)
1888	Fr. Patrick McDermott becomes pastor of St. Benedict the Moor in Pittsburgh, the first parish for African-Americans entrusted to the Congregation and the forerunner of many others. (USA 1888-07-01)
1889	Spiritans take charge of the first black parish in Philadelphia; St. Peter Claver. Many more will be taken on subsequently. (USA 1889-06-03)
1894	Tthe first Trinidadian is professed in the Con-gregation: Henri Pollonais takes his vows, under the name of Brother Rupert, in Pittsburgh, USA. (Trinidad 1894-02-26)
1897	Official opening of a clerical noviciate at Cornwells Heights, near Philadelphia, with about ten novices. The house also serves as a senior seminary and from 1905 as a junior seminary. It is now a pre-paratory school. (USA 1897-07-24)
1900	Br. Philippus Lafferty becomes the first U.S.-born Spiritan to sail for Africa. Stationed in Sierra Leone, he dies four years later. (USA 1900-10-03)
1906	Opening of a noviciate at Norwalk, CT; a senior seminary follows in 1910. They will serve the Congregation until the 1970s, although the noviciate is transferred to Ridgefield in 1922. (U.S.A. 1906-08-17)
1907	Ordination of the first African-American member of the Congregation, Fr. Joseph A. Burgess. (USA 1907-07-14)
1911	The Spiritan College in Pittsburgh is now Duquesne University. (U.S.A 1911-03-30)
1911	Fr. Joseph Schmodry becomes the pioneer of Spiritan missionaries to African-Americans in the Deep South at Alexandria, Louisiana; many others in the southern States are to follow. (USA 1911-11-18)
1921	Fr. Sigismund Rydlewski, of the U.S.A. Province, is authorised to lay the foundation of a province in Poland and opens a junior seminary at Bydgoczsz. (USA 1921-10-11)
1932	The Province of the United States takes over responsibility for the Vicariat of Kilimanjaro. Two years later, Dutch Spiritans will be asked to run Bagamoyo. (Bagamoyo 1932-05-09)
1932	The Holy See names an American citizen, Fr. Joseph Byrne, as Vicar Apostolic of Kilimanjaro in East Africa, a Vicariat it entrusts to the U.S. Province. (USA 1932-07-29)
1939	Fr. George Collins becomes the first US-born Provincial of the Province. (U.S.A. 1939-09-19)
1943	Fr. James Hyland C.S.Sp. (1886-1953), an Irishman of the "Mission Band", publishes his novel "The Dove Flies South", graphically exposing what it means to be black in a white society, seen through the eyes of a white supremacist who temporarily turns black and experiences in person the injustices he himself has always practised. The book is a best-seller that stimulates America's awakening conscience. (USA 1943-11-25)
1946	Fr. James Hyland and several others be-come the founding fathers of Spiritan missions in the Far West of the U.S.A., notably in Southern California at Hemet, Riverside and Bakersfield. They address themselves mostly to Mexican-American immigrants. (U.S.A. 1946-01-24)
1950	One half of the confreres in the U.S.A. are engaged directly in mission work with African-Americans (90), Africans in Kilimanjaro (51) and Puerto Ricans (26); the others are in ethnic parishes, education and formation. (U.S.A. 1950-06-02)
1960	The work of the Spiritans in Arecibo (Puerto-Rico) is so successful that the Holy See creates the Diocese of Arecibo, entrusted to the diocesan clergy. (U.S.A. 1960-04-30)
1964	The Province of the United States is split into two, USA-East and USA-West, with the Mississippi river as their boundary, except that all of Louisiana be-longs to USA-West. (USA 1964-06-25)
1977	First meeting of the Major Superiors of North America and the Caribbean in Puerto Rico. (America 1977-02-20)
1982	The American Provinces of the SMA, CSSp., and White Fathers finance a feasibility study for an African Faith and Justice Network, which re-sults in its creation. It subsequently spreads to Europe and over forty religious institutes become members. (USA 1982-05-24)
1984	With the backing of the USA-East Prov-ince, Fr. James F. Healy, Director of Justice and Peace for the province, opens the Washington Center for Haiti to obtain redress for Haitian victims of injus-tice, whether in the U.S.A. or in Haiti itself. It be-comes a powerful factor in their search for human rights. (U.S.A. 1984-03-15)
1986	The Diocese of Brooklyn ceases to be responsible for the Spiritans who have been working with Haitian refugees. They meet together to plan their return to Haiti. They draw up a common plan, giving priority to the poor. They will not take over the College of Saint-Martial again. (Haiti 1986-11-18)
1991	The first world-wide meeting of Spiritan Lay Associates is held at Bethel Park, Pittsburgh. (C.S.Sp. 1991-06-17)
1992	The noviciate of St. Mary Magdalene of the province of USA East is set up in the diocese of Chicago. (U.S.A. 1992-02-17)
1995	The first Vietnamese Spiritan makes his profession at Houston, Texas. (USA West 1995-09-09)

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