Some Significant March Days for the Chevalier Family, 2024
NOTE:
this is an amplified version of Significant Days, combining the list made originally by Cor Novum, Issoudun, now with the addition of dates from Father Jan Bovenmars MSC’s book, Jules Chevalier, Daily Readings. His book was published in 1993 – so, more recent just from all around the congregation and the Chevalier family would be most welcome.
49 new Significant Days have been added for March.
March 15th, birthday of Jules Chevalier and the year of the bicentenary celebration of his birth.
March 25th has many entries, a significant day. It includes the foundation of the Handmaids of the Lord in 1918 by Archbishop Alain de Boismenu MSC.
MSC Sister have quite a number of significant March days, including the foundation and some mission outreaches.
1 March, 1893
First edition of the Dutch Annals of OLSH
1 March, 1968
Opening of St Pauls National Seminary for Late Vocations at Kensington, Australia.
1 March, 1976
Archbishop Virgil Copas resigns as Apostolic Administrator Bereina, PNG, and Bishop Louis Vangeke is transferred to the see.
1 March, 1985
MSC house canonically erected in Fiji. Father Kevin Barr is the first Superior.
2 March, 1965
First profession of a number of first MSC members: the first from Alotau, Eastern Papua, the first two from Kavieng diocese, New Ireland, the first from the Archdiocese of Port Moresby, in the first three from Kiribati, Pacific Union.
3 March, 1877
During his visit to Rome, Father Chevalier, Jouet and Miniot are received in audience by Pope Pius IX at 18:30. The Pope signs two requests, the second which is an apostolic blessing the Daughters of Our lady of the Sacred Heart.
4 March, 1973
Father John Durkin MSC, Ireland, appointed Bishop of Louis Trichardt/Tzaneen, ordained at Dwars River, South Africa.
5 March, 1869
Pope Pius IX grants the Decretum Laudis to the MSC Congregation.
5 March, 1877
During a stay in Rome, Father Chevalier met Don Daniel Comboni, founder of the Combonian Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and pro-Vicar of the mission of Central Africa, who had consecrated his large Vicariate to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on 8 December, 1875.
5 March, 1898
The Vicariate of New Pomerania, PNG, interested to the MSC, is now entrusted to the German MSC Province.
6 March, 1974
Father Paskalis Harjasoemarta MSC, Indonesia, appointed Bishop of Purwokerto, ordained at Purwokerto.
7 March, 1888
Opening of the first MSC House in Austria, and Salzburg-Liefering
8 March, 1869
The Decree of Praise of the MSC Congregation is signed by the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars.
9 March, 1906
The first Superior General of the MSC Sisters is elected. She is Sister M. Franziska Fleige.
10 March, 1865
The 'Pious Union', a movement centred on devotion to the Sacred Heart and founded by Blessed Louise Thérèse de Montaignac de Chauvance (1820-1885), becomes a Third Order of the MSC Congregation. It is a Third Order for women without vows and is associated with the MSC Congrégation until March, 1874.
10 March, 1933
Death of Father Jules Vandel, first Novice Master and first superior at Kensington, Australia.
10 March, 1989
The first three Peruvian Daughters of our lady of the Sacred Heart take their first vows.
11 March, 1942
World War II: Kabuna, Papua: “many aeroplanes in the air this morning. Brother Jean Koewiede is very sick; in the valley there is no more hope for the Carmelite Sister Marie de la Croix.) (To buy a menu, Notebook)
12 March, 1965
The first two German MSC Sisters leave Hiltrup, Germany, to establish a foundation in Korea. They arrive on the 24 March, 1965 and the next day, 25 March, 1965, is the Foundation Day of the Korean Mission of the MSC Sisters.
14 March, 1987
Erection of the South Korean MSC Section, entrusted to the Philippine Province.
15 March, 1824
Jules Chevalier is born in Richelieu, France. The following day he is baptized in the parish church, "Notre Dame", at Richelieu.
15 March, 1886
Father Charles Piperon rents the property at Terloohof at Borgerhout, Belgium.
15 March, 1928
Foundation of the first FDNSC see community in Italy, at Narni.
15 March, 1980
Erection of the Philippine MSC Province. All Dutch confreres working there join the new province.
16 March, 1950
The Irish MSC accept a mission in the Abbatia Nullius of Pietersburg, South Africa. In the same year, the first three Irish MSC arrive there.
16 March, 1966
The first two Brazilian F DNSC leave for Papua.
17 March, 1935
MSC Sisters and a Third Reich injustice story: Mother M. Electa, Superior General of the MSC Sisters, and the Procurator General, Sr. M. Gerberga are arrested by the Gestapo in Hiltrup. They are falsely accused of trafficking foreign currencies by Joseph Goebbels, Minister of the Propaganda of the German Third Reich. Mother M. Electa will be released from prison one year later, on the 18 March, 1936.
17 March, 1943
Three FDNSC, three MSC from Manus, PNG, eight MSC from New Ireland, PNG,
together with 39 SVD missionaries and Holy Spirit Sisters, are killed at sea between Kavieng and Rabaul, PNG, during the Japanese war in the Pacific.
18 March, 1878
Public audience of Pope Leo the XIII who talks from moment to Father Chevalier personally.
18 March, 1900
Father Alain de Boismenu, appointed coadjutor to Bishop Navarre, is ordained Bishop in Montmartre, Paris.
18 March, 1936
After a year, Mother M.Electa, Superior General of the MSC Sisters, returns from prison.
19 March, 1866
Father J-M.Vandel starts his year of MSC “novitiate”.
19 March, 1964
First canonical erection of an MSC House in Indonesia, at Jakarta.
19 March, 1967
Erection of an MSC Section Texas and in the Southern States of the USA, entrusted to the Irish Province.
20 March, 1886
Father Hubert Linckens, MSC, who becomes historical founder of the MSC Sisters,
is ordained at s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
21 March, 1892
Fathers Chevalier and Piperon visit Barcelona and Canet del Mar.
22 March, 1932
The Apostolic Prefecture of Coquilhatville, Zaire, becomes an Apostolic Vicariate, Msgr E. Van Goethem MSC appointed Apostolic Vicar.
23 March, 1932
Shiquian, China, becomes a ‘Mission sui iuris:, entrusted to the German MSC.
24 March, 1965
The first MSC Sisters arrive in Korea.
25 March, 1859
Construction commences on the Basilica in Issoudun.
25 March, 1874
Approbation of the Archconfraternity of Perpetual Worship.
25 March, 1881
The Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith officially offers the MSC the two Vicariates of Melanesia and Micronesia.
25 March, 1882
Marie Louise Hartzer enters the FDNSC Congregation in Issoudun after a lengthy period of discernment.
The once thriving new community established in 1874, by 1882 does not show signs of growth, in fact, quite the opposite!
However, Marie Louise is very much attracted by the charism of Jules Chevalier so she decides to enter the small community.
She becomes the First Superior General.
25 March, 1901
First Profession ceremony of 11 MSC Sisters in Hiltrup, Bishop Louis Coupe presiding.
25 March, 1918
Centenary, 1918-2018
Foundation of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Lord in Papua New Guinea by Monsignor Alain de Boismenu.
25 March, 1977
Foundation Day of the Indian Mission of the MSC Sisters.
25 March, 1955
Archbishop Carboni opens new Regional Junior Seminary for the eight vicariates apostolic of PNG. Australian staff, Father Kevin English MSC, first Rector.
25 March, 1967
Arrival of the first two MSC, island, in Venezuela: Fathers Donohoe and Moran arrive at Caracas.
25 March, 1977
Foundation Day of Indian Mission of MSC Sisters.
27 March, 1878
Father Chevalier is present at a meeting of the Roman Archconfraternity of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. He leaves Rome for Issoudun that same day.
27 March, 1949
Father Alfonso Ungerelli MSC, Italy, appointed first Prelate Nullius off Pinheiro, ordained Bishop at San Paolo, Brazil.
28 March, 1898
From March 22 to April 6, Father de Boismenu makes a dangerous journey from Yule Island to Thursday Island via Cooktown: rough sea, the main sails are lowered, water enters the ship, the captain is terrified. On March 28, he writes: “terrible night. We pass the coral reef at 2 p.m..”
28 March, 1937
Father Heinrich Kellner, MSC, from the North German Province dies in captivity in China.
29 March, 1922
Rome: the MSC Generalate moves from Porta Pinciana to Via Balbo 1.
29 March, 1938
The name of the diocese of Victoria-Palmerston, Australia, is changed to diocese of Darwin.
29 March, 1940.
The Prelature of Pinheiro, Brazil, his entrusted to the Italian MSC Province.
30 March, 1904.
Father M.Neijens becomes the first MSC to enter Dutch New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
30 March, 1911
The first FDNSC Sisters establish themselves in the Netherlands at Waalwijk.
31 March, 1902
Mission appointment of first 12 MSC Sisters by Father H. Linckens MSC to the Marshall Islands and New Pomerania, New Britain, PNG.
31 March, 1933
Arrival of the first MSC sisters in Shiquian,, China.
31 March, 1950.
Agreement signed between Father Provincial Aidan Breene, Australia, and Monsignor Matsuoco, Bishop of Nagoya, concerning Mission in Japan.
31 March, 1968
The first FDNSC Sisters arrive in the Philippines, after a few days, establishing themselves in Munoz, Neuva Ecija.
