About SVDThe Society of the Divine Word was founded in Steyl, Holland in 1975 by St Arnold Janssen.
Here are a few most important dates in the history of the Society:
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8 IX 1875 |
Arnold Janssen opens St Michael's Mission House in Steyl, Holland |
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1876 |
Start of the mission press in Steyl |
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1879 |
First two missionaries, St Joseph Freinademetz and Fr Jan Anzer, setout for China |
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1881 |
Mission in South Shantung taken over from Franciscans |
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1888 |
Opening of St Raphael's College in Rome |
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1889 |
Founding of St Gabriel's Mission House in Vienna |
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1889 |
Founding of the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters |
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1892 |
Opening of Holy Cross Mission House in Nysa, Poland |
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1896 |
Founding of the Holy Spirit Sisters of Perpetual Adoration |
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1906 |
First issue of Anthropos, international review of ethnology and linguistics |
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1909 |
Arnold Janssen's death |
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1935 |
Opening of the process of beatification of A. Janssen |
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1949 |
Founding of Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan |
| 1975 | Beatification of Arnold Janssen and Joseph Freinademetz |
| 1999 | Beatification of four polish SVD missionaries, martyred during World War II |
| 2001 | Beatification of Sister Helena Stollenwerk, co-founder of the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters |
| 2004 | Canonization of Blessed Arnold Janssen and Joseph Freinademetz |
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When did SVD first come there? |
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| Places |
Holland |
Hongkong | China | Italy | Austria | Germany | Argentina | Togo | ||
| Year | 1875 | 1979 | 1882 | 1888 | 1889 | 1889 | 1889 | 1892 | ||
| Places | Ecuador | Brazil | Papua N.Guinea | Australia | Chile | USA | Japan | Philippines | ||
| Year | 1893 | 1895 | 1896 | 1900 | 1900 | 1905 | 1906 | 1909 | ||
| Places | Paraguay | Mozambique | Indonesia | Poland | Switzerland | Slovakia | Hungary | England | ||
| Year | 1910 | 1911 | 1913 | 1920 (1892) | 1920 | 1923 | 1924 | 1930 | ||
| Places | Belgium | Australia | India | Ghana | Ireland | Spain | Portugal | Canada | ||
| Year | 1928 | 1929 | 1932 | 1938 | 1939 | 1945 | 1949 | 1950 | ||
| Places | Zaire | Taiwan | Congo | Mexico | Colombia | Angola | Yugoslavia | Botswana | ||
| Year | 1951 | 1954 | 1957 | 1962 | 1964 | 1965 | 1970 | 1981 | ||
| Places | South Korea | Kenya | New Zealand | Madagascar | Belarus/Russia | Bolivia | Vietnam | Thailand | ||
| Year | 1984 | 1984 | 1985 | 1989 | 1991 | 1991 | 1998 | 1999 | ||
| Places | Tanzania | South Africa | Chad | |||||||
| Year | 1999 | 2001 | 2004 | |||||||
