CICM Missionaries
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The CICM Missionaries, officially known as the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (
The order's origins lie in Scheut, a suburb of Brussels, due to which it is widely known as the Scheut Missionaries.[citation needed] The congregation is most notable for their international missionary works in China, Mongolia, the Philippines, and in the Congo Free State/Belgian Congo (modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Presently, their international name "CICM Missionaries" is preferred, although, in the United States, the congregation is mostly known as Missionhurst.[6]
History
Foundation
The congregation was founded by
Early Activities
With the Convention of Peking occurring, the CICM would begin establishing operations in the country in the early 1860s.[citation needed] In 1862, Verbist founded the Belgian Mission in China. Upon seeking ecclesiastical permission, however, they were commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Barnabò to begin their work by founding a seminary in Belgium to supply priests for the beginning mission, laying the foundations of the Scheutveld College, 28 April 1863, in the Field of Scheut near Brussels. As a result, the C.I.C.M. missionaries were also known as Scheutists or Scheut missionaries.[citation needed]
In September 1863, the first group of missionaries set forth for Inner Mongolia.[citation needed] In the winter of 1865, Verbist and his four companions arrived in inner Mongolia, which was entrusted to the fledgling congregation by Rome, and immediately began organizing small Christian communities. Three years later, on 23 February 1868, Verbist died of typhoid fever at the age of 44 in Lao-Hu-Kou.
The Scheutveld priests and brothers would face dangers such as the Boxer Rebellion in China, the climate of the nations in which missions were conducted, and persecution of the missionaries and their local congregations.[citation needed]
After
World War II
During
Later years
The congregation would grow in the following years, eventually growing to have a worldwide presence.[citation needed] Originally a Belgian Foundation, CICM has grown into an international religious missionary congregation of men from different races, colors and nationalities.
In connection with their missions, the Fathers opened a number of institutions, such the hospital at St-Trudon, Upper Kassai, for those afflicted with sleeping sickness.[citation needed]
Today, 780 CICM priests and lay brothers are present in Asian countries (e.g. Mongolia, Indonesia, and Japan), Africa, the Americas, and in Europe.[citation needed]
Picture gallery
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A Relief of Fr. Jules Sepulchre, CICM, inNorthern Philippines.
Historical table
Chapter | year | Superior General | country | members |
1862 | VERBIST Théophile | Belgium | ||
1865 | China | |||
1869 | VRANCKX Frans | 11 | ||
Gen. Conf. | 1887 | |||
1888 | VAN AERTSELAER Jeroom | Congo | 112 | |
I | 1898 | VAN HECKE Adolf | 309 | |
1899 | Nederland | |||
1904 | Roma | |||
1907 | Philippines | |||
II | 1908 | BOTTY Albert | 507 | |
1909 | MORTIER Florent | |||
III | 1920 | RUTTEN Joseph | 649 | |
IV | 1930 | DAEMS Constant | 928 | |
1931 | Singapore | |||
1935 | VANDEPUTTE Jozef (Vic.g.) | 1202 | ||
1937 | Indonesia | |||
1946 | U.S.A. | |||
V | 1947 | VANDEPUTTE Jozef | Japan | 1479 |
1953 | Haïti - Chili (+1957) | |||
1954 | Hong Kong - Taiwan | |||
1954 | Guatemala | |||
VI | 1957 | SERCU Frans | 1902 | |
1958 | Rep. Dominicana | |||
1961 | DEGRIJSE Omer | 1943 | ||
1963 | Brazil | |||
1966 | Cameroun | |||
VII | 1967 | GOOSSENS Wim | 1986 | |
VIII | 1974 | VAN DAELEN Paul | 1683 | |
1976 | Zambia - Sénégal | |||
1977 | Nigeria (+2003) | |||
1979 | México | |||
IX | 1981 | VAN DAELEN Paul (2a) | 1556 | |
X | 1987 | DECRAENE Michel | 1441 | |
1989 | France(+2019) | |||
1990 | Tchad (+2008) | |||
1992 | Mongolia | |||
XI | 1993 | THOMAS Jacques | 1380 | |
1995 | Angola (+2007) | 1359 | ||
XII | 1999 | LAPAUW Jozef | Mozambique (+2002) | 1247 |
XIII | 2005 | TSIMBA Edouard | 999 | |
2006 | South Africa (+2016) | 990 | ||
XIV | 2011 | ATKIN Timothy | 881 | |
2016 | Rép. Centrafricaine | |||
XV | 2017 | PHUKUTA K. Charles | 797 | |
2020 | Malawi | 780 |
Current CICM Schools
The examples and perspective in this section deal primarily with the Philippines and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (September 2023) |
Philippines
- Saint Louis University, Baguio
- Saint Louis College, San Fernando City, La Union
- University of Saint Louis Tuguegarao, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan Valley
- Saint Mary's University, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya
- Saint Louis College – Cebu, Mandaue City, Cebu
- Saint Catherine's School (Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya)
- Maryhurst Seminary, Baguio
- Maryhill School of Theology, Quezon City
- Maryshore Seminary, Bacolod City
- Saint Vincent's School, Bontoc, Mountain Province
- Santo Rosario School, Pudtol, Apayao
References
- ^ a b c d "Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (C.I.C.M.)".
- ^ "Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (C.I.C.M.)".
- ^ http://www.gcatholic[permanent dead link]. org/orders/025.htm
- ^ http://www. gcatholic.org/orders/025.htm
- ^ aspx "Missionhurst-CICM celebrates 150 years". Today's Catholic. November 16, 2012.
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value (help) - ^ a b "Who We Are". Missionhurst. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ^ About the parish - Website of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster
- ^ Plaque to the Scheut Fathers - London Remembers website
Bibliography
- Raskin, Albert (1977) 'The archives of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (C.I.C.M.)', History in Africa, 4, 299–304.
- Berg, Leo van den (1994) 'The China world of the "Scheut fathers"', Bulletin de l 'Institut Historique de Belge de Rome, 64, 223–263.
- Verhelst, Daniël; Pycke, Nestor (1995). C.I.C.M. Missionaries Past and Present: History of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheut/Missionhurst). Verbistiana. Vol. 4. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ISBN 978-9-06186-676-3.
- Vanysacker, Dries; Renson, Raymond (1995). The Archives of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM-Scheut) (1862–1967) - 2 v. Rome: Bibliothèque de l'Institut Historique Belge de Rome. ISBN 978-9-07446-115-3.
External links
- CICM Missionaries in ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures Archived 2016-04-28 at the Wayback Machine
- Archives of the CICM Missionaries in ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures Archived 2016-04-28 at the Wayback Machine