Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XI, 1953 Religious orders

Swiss Society for Foreign Missions of Bethlehem

SOCIETÀ SVIZZERA PER LE MISSIONI ESTERE DI BETLEMME

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SWISS SOCIETY FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS OF BETHLEHEM. - The missionary house of Bethlehem in Immensee was founded in 1896 by Fr. Barral.

Its purpose was to give young Swiss men the possibility of becoming priests and then working in the missions and in abandoned parishes. Eleven years later Fr. Bondolfi took over the direction of the work, which enjoyed good development. On 30 May 1921 the missionary house was erected by Propaganda into a Society, which in 1924 sent its first three missionaries to Manchuria. It developed rapidly and today has missions in Manchuria and in South Africa. The Constitutions were definitively approved on 4 March 1936.

Bibliography

BIBL.: I. Beckmann, 15 Jahre schweizerisch. Mission-seminar 1922-47, Schöneck 1947.

Saverio Paventi

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 874.

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Paventi, Saverio. “Società Svizzera Per Le Missioni Estere di Betlemme.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 874. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/societa-svizzera-per-le-missioni-estere-di-betlemme.

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Paventi, Saverio. “Società Svizzera Per Le Missioni Estere di Betlemme.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 874. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/societa-svizzera-per-le-missioni-estere-di-betlemme.

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  title     = {Società Svizzera Per Le Missioni Estere di Betlemme},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {874},
  note      = {Cited by column},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
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