{"id":2014,"date":"2020-07-08T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/?page_id=2014"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:46:35","slug":"spain-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/spain-who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"units – spain – who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mariannhill’s presence in Spain dates back to the early sixties of the last century. The Spanish priest D. Antonio S\u00e1nchez-Elvira Ramos (+), then a member of the Spanish Institute of Foreign Missions, being a missionary in ancient Rhodesia, entered in 1958 at the Mariannhill Novitiate in South Africa, making his first profession on July 26 from 1959.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Antonio arrived in Madrid on March 13, 1960 with the commission to found Mariannhill in Spain. In July of that same year the Procuration of Spain was canonically established, placing it at number 22 of Angel Mu\u00f1oz street, in Madrid.<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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On August 25, 1960, a building was acquired on the outskirts of Palencia to open a Minor Seminary. To this end, Father Gallus Strittmatter CMM (+) had been transferred from South Africa. On October 3, 1961, the first academic year began in the mentioned Minor Seminary, dedicated to Santa Ana, with 72 students.<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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During 1962 the canonical status of Mariannhill in Spain passes from Procura to Region and its headquarters is established at number 249 of Arturo Soria street, in Madrid. In 1969 the canonical status of Mariannhill in Spain changes again, becoming a Province.\nIn those early years, the following Mariannhill missionaries were transferred to Spain: from Germany Brother Lukas Schmidt CMM (+) [1960], from Austria Fr. Bertram Nunn CMM (+) [1961], from Germany Fr. Francis Jank CMM [1961], from Holland Fr. Philip Voorn CMM [1962] and from Switzerland Fr. Lukas Mettler CMM [1963].\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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At that time, next to the existing building in Palencia, a farm was acquired in order to build in it a new Minor Seminary with capacity for 250 students. Planned in two phases, the building was completed in 1969. When the first phase was completed in 1965, the Minor Seminary was moved to the new building, offering the previous building to the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. And that's how they also arrived in Spain. <\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The activities of the Mariannhill Minor Seminary in Palencia ended in July 1987, the building becoming the property of the Diocese of Palencia and where it, in turn, established its Diocesan Minor Seminary. And that's how Mariannhill said goodbye to the Diocese of Palencia after 27 years of presence and work in it. There we have left our beloved Frs. Albertus Sh\u00e4rf CMM, who died in 1975, and Matthias Tutsch CMM, who died in 2002, buried in the parish cemetery of Santa Ana. Every year Mariannhill missionaries in Spain visit their graves when November arrives.<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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In that same year, when Mariannhill left Palencia, a house with an estate was acquired in the town of Carbajal de la Legua, belonging to the Province and Diocese of Le\u00f3n, where Mariannhill established a new community, which also served as a Novitiate. There Mariannhill has remained until 2012, when both the community and the house were canonically closed.\nDuring the 25 years of Mariannhill's presence in Le\u00f3n, two rural parishes have been attended, young people have worked, retreats and spiritual exercises have been preached, both to priests and to apostolic groups of lay people.
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In the mid-eighties, Sr. Mary Martin Piti CPS, missionary of the Precious Blood, informed our General Curia in Rome that a nephew of his, a native of Panama, wished to join Mariannhill. Taking advantage of the presence in Panama as Apostolic Nuncio of a good friend of Mariannhill, Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Sebasti\u00e1n Laboa Gallego, he was initially asked to accompany this young man as well as, subsequently, other young Panamanians, who contacted us, interested in Meet Mariannhill and come to be missionaries.\nThe Spanish Province of Mariannhill committed itself at the end of the eighties to train candidates from that Latin American country in Spain. The first two Panamanian priests of Mariannhill trained in Spain, the PP. Marco Antonio Saavedra Quiel CMM [nephew of Sr. Mary Martin Piti CPS] and Antonio Jos\u00e9 Chong \u00c1guila CMM, were ordained priests in June 1996. They were followed by the PP. Jorge Ariel Espinosa Bernal CMM, Jos\u00e9 Alonso Torres Moreno CMM and Jos\u00e9 Francisco Flores Zambrano CMM. Companion of these Panamanian Mariannhill priests is Fr. Juan Jos\u00e9 Cepedano Fl\u00f3rez CMM, the last ordained Spanish priest of Mariannhill.\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Let us present Who we are Mariannhill’s presence in Spain dates back to the early sixties of the last century. The Spanish priest D. Antonio S\u00e1nchez-Elvira Ramos (+), then a member of the Spanish Institute of Foreign Missions, being a missionary in ancient Rhodesia, entered in 1958 at the Mariannhill Novitiate in South Africa, making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2014\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariannhill.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}