Student: Minor Seminary
(Gaesdonck), Mathematics
and Natural Sciences
( Bonn , Muenster),
Theology (Muenster)
15 Aug 1861
Ordained priest in Muenster
1861 - 1873
Teacher in High School
( Bocholt )
1869
Diocesan Director of
the Apostleship of Prayer
(Muenster)
Jan 1874
Began publishing the
magazine "Little Messenger
of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus".
08 Sept 1875
Opened the Mission House
in Steyl , Netherlands.
02 Mar 1879
Sent out the first missionaries
to China.
1884 - 1886
First General Chapter:
Foundation of the
"Society of the Divine
Word" (SVD)
1888 - 1904
Founded five more
Mission House in Europe
:
St. Raphael's, Rome
in 1888
St. Gabriel's, Moedling/Vienna
in 1889
Holy Cross, Silesia
in 1892
St. Wendel's, Saar
in 1898
St. Rupert's, Bischofshofen
in 1904
08 Dec 1896
Founded the cloistered
sisters "Servants of
the Holy Spirit of Perpetual
Adoration" (SSpS AP)
25 Jan 1900
Papal approbation for
"Society of the Divine
Word".
28 Oct 1908
Approved
the opening of a Mission
House in U.S.A. (Techny)
15 Jan 1909
Died
in Steyl.
19 Oct 1975
Beatified
together with Joseph
Freinademetz, first
SVD missionary to China.
05 Oct 2003
Canonized together with
Joseph Freinademetz,
first SVD missionary
to China.
