Bp.Thomas Newman, M.S., (center) with Burmese who cut and float bamboo strips down the Thandin River. |
Original header for La Salette Missions Newsletter |
Fr Jacek Pawlowski, M.S. |
(L) New house is being build at Shrine, 1910; (R) pilgrims celebrate La Salette Feast,1930 |
In order to appreciate the foundation and ministry of the La Salette Missionaries in Poland, we need to understand from where they came and how they began their ministry.
The La Salette Missionaries arrived in Dębowiec in 1910. The seminary was founded through the efforts of Fr. Schalbettera Solomon, M.S., who bought the property on June 7, 1910 from the Dębowiec Municipal Board who had offered for sale the assets of the former Austrian minister, Count Florian Ziemiałkowskim.
The seminary was built between 1910 and 1911. In a short time the seminary became the center of worship of Our Lady of La Salette in Poland.
Fr. Tarcisio Tchiheke, M.S., the first native Angolan La Salette priest |
Fr. Jeremy (2nd from left) with his catechists at Ankavandra |
Fr. Charles Gendron, M.S. (1917-2005) in our Hartford, CT, residence |
Map of Central Madagascar and Ankavandra |
From !946 issue of “Our Lady’s Missionary” |
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (1934-2002) was an Angolan political leader. He founded and led the UNITA faction |
A displaced girl in Uige who, like almost a third of her country's population, has been displaced by violence and war |