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LIST OF ALL SPIRITAN MARTYRS


Tragedy in Katanga

On January 1, 1962, twenty Spiritans, eighteen of whom were Belgians, were massacred at Kongolo. They were killed not because of their nationality but because of their faith. Two other priests, some sisters and junior seminarians, all Africans who had witnessed the killings, were to be killed themselves in the afternoon of the same day. It was only the arrival of a senior officer that prevented a second slaughter. And these are not the only Spiritan martyrs!!

LIST OF ALL SPIRITAN MARTYRS

By country of origin

 

Origin

Martyr

Date and location of death

Belgium

Gaston Crauwels

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Louis Crauwels

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Joseph de Hert

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Albert Forgeur

08/04/61 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Pierre Francis

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Pierre Gilles

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Jean-Marie Godefroid

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Albert Henckels

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Joseph Hens

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Jean-Baptiste Lenselaer

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Désiré Pellens

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Joseph Postelmans

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Raphael Renard

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Jean Théodore Schildermans

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Roger Edmund t'Jaeckens

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

René Tournay

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

André van der Smissen

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Joseph Vandamme

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Michel Vanduffel

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

France

Jean Courtecuisse

15/08/60 , Douala-Yaounde, Cameroon

 

Henri de Maupeou

21/04/32 , Yaounde, Cameroon

 

Michel PIERRE

02/09/77, Dibwangui, Gabon

 

Jean Etienne Wosniak

26/05/85 , Malanje, Angola

Germany

Alfons Magin

30/03/47 , Russia

 

Emile Muller

11/12/44 , Bergen-Belsen, Germany

Ireland

Fellim McAllister

12/03/94 , Sierra Leone

Netherlands

Walterus Gillijns

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Bernulphe Heemskerk

01/01/62 , Kongolo, Congo (Zaire)

 

Nicolaas Petrus Ligthart

24/02/87 , Huambo, Angola

 

Martinus Thijssen

16/03/76 , Lubango, Angola

Nigeria

Paulinus Ezike

01/01/68 , Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Portugal

Abilio da Fonseca Guerra

24/04/92 , Luanda, Angola

 

José da Silva Pereira

05/04/78 , Lubango, Angola

 

Adélio Ribeiro Lopes

18/07/76 , Huambo, Angola

 

Afonso Rodrigues

16/03/76 , Lubango, Angola

 

By country of martyrdom (number in each country)

 

Angola 7: 1 French; 2 Dutch; 4 Portuguese.

Cameroon 2 French.

Congo-Kinshasa (Zaire) 21: 19 Belgian; 2 Dutch.

Gabon 1 French.

Germany 1 German.

Nigeria 1 Nigerian.

Russia 1 German.

Sierra Leone 1 Irish.

 

 

 


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