PORTUGUESE SOCIETY FOR CATHOLIC MISSIONS. - Its specific purpose is religious assistance and evangelization in the Portuguese dioceses overseas, and also in other missionary regions to which it can extend its activity.

It was founded by the express wish and intervention of the Holy See (cf. Secretariat of State of the Holy See, prot. 3207/1930; AAS, 25 [1933], pp. 150-51; 32 [1940], pp. 249-70). It depends on the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. Its Constitutions were drafted and published in Rome by the Vatican Polyglot Press in 1930. In 1932, after the prescribed probationary year, the first members took the oath prescribed by the Constitutions. The Society has three formation houses in Portugal: Tomar, Gernache do Bonjardin and Cucujães (where the General Directorate resides). Members (Jan. 1952): 75 sworn (of whom 41 are priests); 13 novices; 205 aspirants (middle and high school). It has 28 missionaries in Africa, in Mozambique (dioceses of Nampula and Lourenço Marques). It is officially recognized by the Portuguese government (cf. Diario do Governo, May 16, 1941). It has various publications for missionary propaganda.

Domenico Marques Vaz

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Portuguese Society for Catholic Missions

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