On Monday, 1st of June in Spiritan History...

C.S.Sp. 1876: Pius IX signs the decree introducing the cause of François Libermann. Portugal 1877: The house at Braga becomes a princi-pal community. United Kingdom 1904: Mgr Le Roy, Superior General, and Fr Larry Healy, Provincial of Ireland, agree to rent a property at Prior Park, near Bath. The noviciate for future Irish clerics and brothers opens there on 8 October 1904, with Fr. John T. Murphy as novice master, and continues until 1907. Nigeria 1967: The beginning of the civil war in Nigeria. Subsequently, approximately 280 Irish confreres are displaced and later find work in other circumscrip-tions, including Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, PNG & Australia. Rome 1923: In the wake of the communist revolution in Rus-sia, the Congregation is asked by Pius XI, through Cardinal Gasparri, to open a seminary in Rome for the training of priests for Russia. Mgr. Le Roy is most reluctant, saying that our resources are already over-stretched. Finally, the Jesuits agree to take it on and they are running it to this day (B.G. 31, p. 189).