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CHAMPION OF EVANGELIZATION
Proclaiming the Good News
is the first and main
expression of love for ones
neighbor. A. Janssen
He was an ardent animator
of the churchs mission in
Central Europe. He gave
proof of his courage while
opening a mission house in
Steyl when the Church went
through difficult time due to
the so-called Kulturkampf.
Pope John Paul II
APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER
Growing commitment to the world mission
1867, he became acquainted with Fr. Malfatti, Director of
the Apostleship of Prayer in Germany and Austria. He was
asked to be a promoter in the Diocese of Muenster.
Apostleship of Prayer was founded in France in1844 by a
group of Jesuits for ordinary people as kind of school and
formation for growing in faith.
His spent all his holidays promoting the Apostleship of
Prayer in the parishes of the Diocese and was appointed as
Diocesan Director in 1869.
He promoted it also in other Dioceses in Germany like Trier,
Cologne, Munich Switzerland, Luxembourg.
He started to write and publish pamphlets and prayer
leaflets which were very popular.
1873 occasioned by a problem in the school about the
statue of our Lady, he resigned from teaching for apostolate
Bishop of Roermond
The new building had rooms for the growing community. There was a
chapel which can accommodate 120 persons. On the main altar was the
statue to the Sacred Heart. This chapel was used till 1883.
JOSEPH FREINADEMETZ
FOUNDATIONS IN EUROPE
SSPS
1895 Argentina
1889 Argentina
1889 Austria
1892 Germany, Togo-[1917, 1974]
1901 USA
1902 Brasil
1895 Brazil
1905 China
1895 USA
1908 - Japan
CHOSEN BY GOD
It is remarkable that a
man who was humanly
speaking so ordinary
and frail, and in spite of
many difficulties and
contradictions, achieved
such extraordinary
things. That goes to
show, how he, Arnold,
was a man chosen by
God
Bishop Poggenburg - Muenster - 1913
ASIA
Total 1,532
Total 4,602
AFRICA
OCEANIA
SVD 3080
SSPS 1344
SSPSAP-178
SVD - 739
SSPS - 692
SSPSAP 107
SVD - 236
SSPS - 31
SSPSAP 8
Total - 275
EUROPE
SVD - 1923
SSPS 1372
SSPSAP-114
Total 3,409
SVD - 51
SSPS 38
SSPSAP-0
Total - 89
CALLED
TO SHARE
IN THE
MISSION
OF THE
TRIUNE
GOD
The Mission
response of
St. Arnold
to the Realities
of His Time
Missionaries are
ambassadors of
divine love. They
are to reveal the
great deeds of God
and establish the
kingdom of divine
love.
St.Arnold Janssen