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For the record, MSC Martyrs
For the record, MSC Martyrs
We have some history of martyrs
The Baining Martyrs
These were the ten religious (two MSC priests, two MSC Brothers, five MSC Sisters and a Trappist Brother) who, along with several local people, were murdered on August 13, 1904, in The Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain. They were the first in the Chevalier Family to give their lives in the service of the mission.
From the MSC Siters site: During November of 1904 five young MSC Sisters, four MSC priests and brothers, and one Trappist died at the hands of angry natives in the Baining Mountains of New Britain. When Fr. Rascher repeatedly refused to condone the adultery of an influential man, the man gathered a band of natives and planned and executed the brutal massacre. The martyrdom of the five Sisters served to strengthen the young community’s resolve to be the Heart of God on earth. Volunteers quickly offered themselves as replacements, and in November of 1904, a relief expedition set out for the South Seas and the MSC Sisters continued to serve the people of New Britain. In fact, the number of MSC candidates swelled so dramatically following the martyrdom, that Fr. Linckens needed to find a new field for their missionary work.
Failure of the cause
The debated point, in simple language, is whether those who killed the ten Servants of God were acting out of hatred of religion (because the missionaries had opposed a case of adulter
y in the mission) or for cultural, political motives (because they saw the missionaries as agents of a foreign power who were opposed to their culture). These questions arose in the diocesan phase and were brought up by officials of the Congregation for the Saints in relation to both the first and the second Positio.
The Congregation for the Saints has informed us that unless we can find new evidence to support our claim of martyrdom, the cause cannot continue. We have, therefore, reluctantly decided not to pursue the cause and have so advised the Congregation.
The Martyrs of Canet del Mar
November 6th is the feast day of the seven MSC martyrs. Blessed Fathers Antonio Arribas, Abundio Martín, José Vergara, Josep-Oriol Issern and Brothers Gumersindo Gómez, Jésus Moreno and José del Almo were beatified in May 2017 and are the first members of our Congregation to be declared blessed.
These seven Missionaries of the Sacred Heart lived and worked in the Pequeña Obra (minor seminary) of Canet de Mar, Barcelona, preparing some 65 young people for religious life and priesthood. By their lives and by their deaths as martyrs, they give the fullest meaning to the motto of our Congregations: May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere!
The Quiche Martyrs
The ten martyrs, all tortured and murdered by security forces and death squads, were the priests José Maria Gran Cirera, Juan Alonso Fernandez, and Faustino Villanueva; and the seven laymen: Rosalío Benito, Reyes Us, Domingo del Barrio, Nicolás Castro, Tomás Ramírez, Miguel Tiú, and 12-year-old Juan Barrera Méndez.
Ted Harris MSC, Australia
From the first group of those ordained from Croydon, 1939, Ted Harris helped troops escape invading Japanese forces who executed him.
Every Man for Himself : the life of Father Edward Charles Harris, "martyr" of Mal Mal, the man who would not retreat
Some Significant Days for the Chevalier Family, August 2023
Some Significant Days for the Chevalier Family, August 2023
Baining Martyrs
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.
34 new Significant Days have been added for August
See August 1st, 14th, 27th, 30th, Mother Marie Louise Hartzer
1 August, 1879
The Italian Annals of OLSH are from now on published in Rome instead of Osimo, Italy.
1 August, 1887
The first four FDNSC Sisters arrive at Yule Island, PNG
1 August, 1967
The Irish MSC and their first project in Venezuelan, the parish of Our Lady of Coronato in Maracaibo
3 August, 1899
First community of MSC Sisters is established in Hiltrup, Germany: two Sisters of Divine Providence and one MSC candidate. Sister Servatia, one of the Divine Providence Sisters, is appointed first Superior General of the MSC Sisters, Hiltrup.
3 August, 1950
Fr L. Koppert MSC dies in Rome. He had been in charge of the International MSC Scholastic that since 1924.
4 August, 1859
The saintly Curé d\'Ars, Jean-Marie Vianney, dies, shortly after the visit of Father Chevalier on 14 July, 1859.
5 August, 1951
Inauguration of the new parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
5 August, 1982
MSC Sisters open a Novitiate in Bangalore, India.
6 August, 1930
Fr John Doyle MSC, Australia, arrives in Sideia/Samarai, Eastern Papua. He will later become the first Bishop of Sideia
6 August, 1986
The Canonical Erection of the UAF (Union of French-speaking Africa) on June 18 becomes effective. Father Karl Hofer is the first superior.
6 August, 1988
St Pauls National seminary for Late Vocations, founded at Kensington in 1968, has its 200th ordination to the priesthood.
10 August, 1928
Fr Karl Laufer MSC, German province, is ordained a priest at Paderborn. He gained fame as missionary and anthropologist in New Britain, PNG.
11 August, 1905
MSC General Chapter at Louvain, in Belgium. Decisions taken were: to revise the Constitutions of Father Founder, to move the Generalate to Rome, and to drop the \'fourth\' vow. This \'Vow of Stability\' could be taken by individual members to stay in the congregation until death, and also included being willing to be sent on mission anywhere in the world by the Pope or religious superior.
11 August, 1908.
Arrival of the first eight MSC sisters from Germany in the US.
12 August, 1855
After a retreat in a Trappist monastery, Father Charles Piperon decides “to live and die as a religious”.
13 August, 1890
Blessing of the new MSC House in Tilburg, Holland.
13 August, 1904
The Baining Martyrs: Father M. Rascher, together with three MSC confreres, a Trappist Brother, five MSC Sisters and seven Catholic Bainings, are killed in the Baining Mountains, East New Britain, PNG.
14 August, 1895
Arrival of the first FDNSC in Nonouti, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati).
14 August, 1905
Foundation of the mission station at Merauke, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
14 August, 1981
The first MSC novitiate of the South African Region, entrusted to the Irish province, opened in Ofcolaco with three novices.
15 August, 1905
Fr E. Meyer is elected superior general (1905-1920).
15 August, 1919
Erection of the Dutch MSC province.
15 August, 1946
Arrival of the first nine Italian MSC in Pinheiro, Brazil.
15 August, 1945
MSC Sisters in PNG are released from Ramale Camp, New Britain.
16 August, 1869
The Archbishop of Bourges blesses the MSC novitiate at Montlucon, a distance of five minutes from the church of St Paul where Father Guyot, the first novice Master, his parish priest.
18 August, 1920
Father Adrian Brocken, Holland, is elected Period General (1920-1932)
19 August, 1923
Archbishop Louis Coupe, Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul from 1890-1923, retires.
20 August, 1848
This date remembers the death of Jean-Charles Chevalier, the father of Jules Chevalier.
20 August, 1926
Fr Bernardus Weidenbrugge, one of the 14 Trappist who joined the MSC in Belgian Congo, Zaire, in 1926, makes his first profession.
21 August, 1882
Fr Andre Navarre and his two companions arrive in Sydney on the way to the mission of Melanesia. They are welcomed by the Marist Fathers. A week later they are able to leave for Port Breton with a ship of the Marquis de Ray.
21 August, 1988
Three Kiribati Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart leave from Majuro, the first foundation in the Marshall Islands.
22 August, 1985
Two MSC sisters of the Peruvian Province depart for the Dominican Republic to start a new mission
24 August, 1863
In the presence of the notary public, Brinet, an act is signed by M, de Champgrand stating that Fr Jules Chevalier has obtained possession of the whole property at its centre.
24 August, 1946
Fr Andre Sorin MSC consecrated in OLSH church Randwick as the Vicar Apostolic of Moresby.
25 August, 1905
Erection of the French province.
25 August, 1985
Fathers Arguillas and Ceniza, Philippines, take possession of the first MSC house in Seoul, Korea.
26 August, 1902
Erection of the first MSC house in Switzerland, at pre-Borg
27 August, 1837
This date recalls the birth of Marie-Louise Mestmann (Hartzer) in Wissembourg, France.
28 August, 1901
Fr Chevalier asks Rome to accept his resignation as Superior General and to grant him a decree of “secularisation pro forma” for as long as the situation demands. Both requests were granted.
29 August, 1920
The Apostolic Prefecture of Dutch New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, becomes an Apostolic Vicariate.
29 August, 1965,
Fr Cadoux MSC, France, appointed Bishop of Koalack, Senegal, ordained at Issoudun.
30 August, 1874
Foundation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart by Father Chevalier in Issoudun, as a Sister Congregation to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
30 August, 1948
Arrival in Argentina of the first two MSC fathers, Chelsea Megiddo and Bonito Camino, Spain.
30 August, 1983
The Congregation for Religious approves the updated version of the Constitutions of the FDNSC – Constitutions originally drawn up by Fr Chevalier himslef.
31 August, 1960
Erection of the Australian Province of the MSC Sisters.
