Carisma e identita dei Missionari dell'Africa 3RA1009

Students will get to know and appreciate different personalities of Missionaries of Africa, who have been trail blazers and have set landmarks in the history of the Missionaries of Africa, through their actions and writings.

Studies of outstanding Missionaries of Africa personalities, who have marked the apostolic action of our Society throughout its history.

Historically significant Texts of the Society, including a) those of the founder, b) the early Constitutions and c) the texts of the different Chapters held by the Society of the Missionaries of Africa. Available biographies of the Founder and of various Missionaries of Africa. Ceillier, C., History of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers). From the beginning of their foundation by Msgr Lavigerie until his death (1968 – 1892), Pauline Publications Africa, Nairobi, 2011. Lavigerie. C., Constitutions, Règles et Directoire de l’Institut des Missionnaires du Vénérable Géronimo, Alger, Bastide, 1869. Livinhac. L., Lettres Circulaires, 1892-1922, Imprimerie des Missionnaires d’Afrique, Alger, 1906ff, 5 vols. Shorter. A., African Recruits & Missionary Conscripts. The White Fathers and the Great War (1914-1922), Missionaries of Africa History Project, London, 2007. Wellens.S., La Société des Missionnaires d’Afrique (Pères Blancs. Ses origines et le développement de son Organisation jusqu’à la promulgation du code de Droit Canonique, Louvain, P.U.L., 1952. A selection of documents from the Archives Générales des Missionnaires d’Afrique, Rome.

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