SOME SIGNIFICANT JUNE DAYS FOR THE CHEVALIER FAMILY, 2019..
Feast of the Sacred Heart, 28th June
Drawing on many religious traditions
1 June, 1940
Mother M Electa, MSC, promises to build a chapel in honour of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, in Hiltrup, Germany, to seek protection for the Congregation and its works during World War II.
3 June, 1874
Pius IX See also June 12th
Fathers Chevalier, Vandel and Jouët renew their profession before Pope Pius IX.
4 June, 1980
Father Jose Maria Gran Cirera, MSC, of the Spanish Province, is assassinated in Chajul, Guatemala.
5 June, 1944
During World War II, New Guinea Missionary Sisters were imprisoned in Ramale Camp, New Britain, in PNG.
6 June, 1846
Jean-Marie Vandel is ordained a priest at Fribourg, Switzerland, at the age of 37 years.
7 June, 1861
The Vicar General of Bourges blesses the first part of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Issoudun. In the window near the altar of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, is a stained-glass representation of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, her first image. This same stained-glass window is today located above Our Lady's Chapel entrance door, situated inside the Basilica.
9 June, 1983
The three Generalates, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart meet together for the first time. The first meeting took place at the MSC Generalate, Via Asmara in Rome.
10 June, 1854
Father Charles Piperon, a significant early member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart is ordained priest for the Diocese of Bourges.
10 June, 1855
Authorized to take the title of Missionary of the Sacred Heart, the young Chevalier ceases his functions as curate in Issoudun. He takes up the role of parish priest of Issoudun more than 20 years later in 1872.
12 June, 1874
On the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Pope Pius IX signs the decree of Approbation of the MSC Society. Father Chevalier also offers Pius IX a petition, asking him to consecrate the whole Church to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
14 June, 1851
Father Chevalier and eleven other seminarians are ordained priests in the cathedral of Bourges by Cardinal Dupont.
14 June, 1937
Louis Vangeke, MSC, is ordained the very first priest for the Papua New Guinean Catholic Church. In 1970, he became Auxiliary Bishop of Port Moresby, PNG, and then Bishop of Bereina, PNG, until his retirement in 1979. He died in 1982.
15 June, 1851
Father Chevalier celebrated his first Mass in a small chapel (no longer in existence) in the garden of the major seminary in Bourges.
16 June, 1868
First General Assembly of the Third Order of the Sacred Heart in Montluçon. Father Guyot is its General Director, in the name of father Chevalier. It is a Third Order for women without vows and is associated with the MSC congregation from 1865 to 1874.
17 June, 1851
Father Chevalier receives his first appointment: curate in the parish of Ivoy-le-Pré. He remains in this parish for 7 months before taking his second appointment in Châtillon-sur-Indre.
19 June, 1940
At 8:30am, Issoudun is bombed: 100 people died and many are wounded. The historic presbytery from which Father Founder was evicted in 1907, is destroyed.
24 June, 1915
During the First World War, Missionary Sisters in New Britain (PNG) are imprisoned.
26 June, 1859
Laying of the first stone of the new sanctuary of the Sacred Heart in Issoudun by Monsignor Caillaud, Vicar General of Bourges.
26 June, 1984
Sister Klara Sietman, MSC, is elected as 6th Superior General of the MSC Sisters.
28 June, 1928
Father Arthur Lanctin, MSC, 2nd Superior General of the MSC, 1901-1905, dies in Issoudun.
30 June, 1850
Jules Chevalier is ordained to the Sub-Diaconate, in the Chapel of the major seminary in Bourges.
