Some Significant Australia and Pacific June Days for the Chevalier Family

See JUne 23

5 June, 1900

Archibald Shaw, first Australian-born MSC priest, ordained in Sydney.

5 June, 1944

During World War II, New Guinea Missionary Sisters were imprisoned in Ramale Camp, New Britain, in PNG.

5 June, 1986

Canonical erection of the first MSC house in Seoul, Korea.

6 June, 1914

Father Hubert Linckens begins prolonged visitation of the Australian MSC province: 1914-1921.

6 June, 1980

Erection of the MSC novitiate in Manoku, Abemama, Kiribati.

9 June, 1983

The three Generalates, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart meet together for the first time. The first meeting took place at the MSC Generalate, Via Asmara in Rome.

13 June, 1946

The Vicariate of Papua is divided into the Vicariate of Port Moresby and the Prefecture of Samarai. Father A. Sorin (France) is appointed Vicar of Port Moresby and Administrator Prefect of Samarai

14 June, 1937

Louis Vangeke, MSC, is ordained the very first priest for the Papua New Guinean Catholic Church. In 1970, he became Auxiliary Bishop of Port Moresby, PNG, and then Bishop of Bereina, PNG, until his retirement in 1979. He died in 1982.

16 June, 1950

Father Archibald Bryson (Australia) concluded negotiations for the establishment of the MSC mission in Nagoya and is now in charge of the Japan Mission.

15 June

The MSC residence at Suva, Fiji, ready since January is blessed by Bishop Paul Mea MSC.

19 June, 1885

Father Henry Verius and the brothers Salvatore Gasbarra and Nicola Marconi (Italy) leave Thursday Island for Yule Island, on board ship of Ed Mosby.

20 June, 1882

Father Navarre is appointed Superior of the little group making its way to the mission of Melanesia.

23 June, 1919

The German MSC are forced to leave the Apostolic Vicariate of the Marshall Islands.

23, June, 1935.

From the 90th anniversary celebration 2025

The first mass celebrated at the new mission of Port Keats, later Wadeye, by Fr Richard Docherty MSC, in the north-west of the Northern Territory.

24 June, 1915

During the First World War, Missionary Sisters in New Britain (PNG) are imprisoned.