TITLES:

1- Italy: General Presentation of the 2021 events in the province

2- Lyon: News from the Provincial

3- Zambia: Presenattion of the Farm Project

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Published: 01 November 2021

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Greetings dear brothers and sisters and welcome to this new edition of our SMA News.
Titles:
1- Poland: Priestly ordination of Fr. Waldemar Dziedzina;
2- Uk: News from the provincial;
3- Rome: Award ceremony of the prize received by Fr. Andrea Mandonico.

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Published: 10 October 2021

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175^th anniversary of the Founder's episcopal ordination

All his life, Bishop Melchior de Marion Brésillac was sure of one thing: he wanted to be a missionary, and he was ready to give everything to fulfill this vocation. He wanted to "go" to enlighten the abandoned of the faith with the light of the Gospel, to implant the Church with a well-trained local clergy who could take over, and to continue elsewhere. He never imagined he would one day become a bishop. At the age of 32, while he was fully involved in the education of future clerics in Pondicherry, one of the objectives of the mission that was close to his heart, he was named titular bishop of Pruse and provicar apostolic of Coimbatore by Pope Gregory XVI on Tuesday, May 6, 1845.

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Published: 03 October 2021

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The new pastoral year has just begun, and in Vaulx-en-Velin the installation of the new parish priest of St. Thomas took center stage today 19^th September 2021. Fr. Dieudonné Baloitcha was installed as parish by Fr. Yves Guerpillon the territorial vicar episcopal of East Lyon and rector of Notre Dame de Fourvière Basilica. The ceremony took place in the presence of the SMA Provincial superior of Lyon Fr. François du Penhoat and Bishop Michel Cartateguy, the former bishop of Niamey-Niger, a member of the Provincial Council of Lyon.

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Published: 20 September 2021

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As It was announced earlier (2 september 2021) , The book “Mio Dio, come sei buono. La vita e il messaggio di Charles de Foucauld” translated “My God, how good you are. The Life and Message of Charles de Foucauld” by Fr Andrea Mandonico, Sma, won the Literary Prize of Ambassadors to the Holy See 2021.The award ceremony took place at the “Palazzo Borromeo”, seat of the Italian Embassy to the Holy See on this September 20, 2021.

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Published: 20 September 2021

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The SMA Seminary transformed into an aircraft engine factory...

This year, the Society of African Missions celebrates the 90th anniversary of the opening of its first mission house and first seminary located in Ninino, in the parish of Ryczywol Poland, on the the15th of September 1931. This seminary functioned until the beginning of the Second World War and ensured the formation of many missionaries and priests. One of the first seminarians of Ninino was Fr. Bolesław Szmania, ordained in France on January 6, 1937, then appointed prefect of the seminary of Ninino.

(This photo is taken from https://bit.ly/3kjnTTN).

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Published: 17 September 2021

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