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1800 – New York Missionary Society formed; Johann Janicke founds a school in Berlin to train young people for missionary service. [208] 1800 – Irish priests including Fr James Dixon arrive in Australia as convicts. 1801 – John Theodosius van der Kemp moves to Graaff Reinet to minister to the Khoikhoi (Hottentots) people.
Joseph Marchand (17 August 1803 – 30 November 1835) was a French missionary in Vietnam and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. [1] He is now a Catholic saint, celebrated on 30 November.
The Vatican policy was the death of the missions in China. [23] Afterwards the Roman Catholic Church experienced missionary setbacks, and in 1721 the Chinese Rites controversy led the Kangxi Emperor to outlaw Christian missions. [24] The Chinese emperor felt duped and refused to permit any alteration of the existing Christian practices.
Portrait of Francis Pierz from the book about his life written by Florentin Hrovat in 1887. Francis Xavier Pierz (Slovene: Franc Pirc or Franc Pirec; German: Franz Pierz) (November 20, 1785 – January 22, 1880) was a Slovenian-American Roman Catholic priest and missionary to the Ottawa and Ojibwe Indians in present-day Michigan, Wisconsin, Ontario, and Minnesota.
Introduction of Cause: 29 March 2012 Teresa Kearney (rel. name: Mary Kevin) 28 April 1875 in Knockenrahan, Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland 17 October 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States Founder, Little Sisters of Saint Francis and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa Lugazi and Boston [64] [65] Heroic Virtues 6 May 2016 1959
John Baptist Purcell (February 26, 1800 – July 4, 1883 [1]) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.He served as Bishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to his death in 1883, and he was elevated to the rank of archbishop in 1850.
Catholic Historical Review 101.2 (2015) pp. 242–273. Hsia, R. Po-chia. "The Catholic Historical Review: One Hundred Years of Scholarship on Catholic Missions in the Early Modern World." Catholic Historical Review 101.2 (2015): 223–241. online, mentions over 100 articles and books, mostly on North America and Latin America.
The rival missionaries competed for the attention of Cayuse noble Tawatoy. He was present when the Catholic priests held their first Mass at Fort Nez Percés. Demers returned to the trading post for two weeks in the summer of 1839. [16] One of Tawatoy's sons was baptized at this time and Pierre-Chrysologue Pambrun was named as his godfather. [14]