MSC Sisters Foundation Anniversary, 126 years
The Sisters in Melbourne gathered for an Anniversary Eucharistic celebration at their centre in Deepdene with Peter Malone.
Fr. Linckens founded the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1900.
He gave them the spirit of his own congregation, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Hubert Linckens grew up in the Dutch province of Limburg in the Netherlands. At an early age, (14 years old) he desired to be a priest and missionary. In 1875 he joined the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Issoudun (France). It was never his aim to found a new congregation. He was told by Father Jules Chevalier, the founder of the MSC priests and brothers, to start a community of German sisters for the purpose of working in the missions in the Marshall Islands, which were then under the German government.
He was admired for his dedication to the congregation and for his unselfishness. It was obvious to all that his life was in harmony with the Gospel. He often quoted the Scriptures. He was a true and zealous MSC and loved his congregation. Father Linckens had special organizational abilities. Always careful to fulfil God’s will, he handled concrete situations with consistency, far-sightedness, and loyalty.
- 1861 Born in Wylre (Netherlands)
- 1886 Ordained a priest in Herzogenbusch, Netherlands (later, in 1942, Nazi’s took over this area and it became a Nazi Camp)
- First Provincial Superior and Founder of the German Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Hiltrup, Germany.
- 1900 Founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Hiltrup
- 1922 Died in Hiltrup
From MSC Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Hiltrup
