Excerpt from Sister Lorraine Molchanow, MSC When France lost their colonies in the Pacific Islands to Germany, French MSC’s were no longer welcome there. This created a great need for German priests, brothers and sisters. Father Hubert Linckens, MSC was entrusted with the foundation of the Mission House for his congregation in Germany around 1894 and became the first provincial of the MSC in Hiltrup, Germany. He was further entrusted Many women applied to the new congregation. Two Sisters of the Divine Providence and Fr. Linckens guided the young women as Missionaries of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. March 25, 1900 (their Foundation Day) marked the reception of eleven postulants into the MSC Sisters novitiate. By 1904, five sisters left for the Marshall Islands, seven to Papua New Guinea and 10 more left for the South Pacific Soon after, in 1904, 5 sisters were assassinated at St. Paul in the Baining Mountains of Papua New Guinea. Fr. Linckens was in the South Pacific at that time and sent word to Mother Franziska to send replacements immediately. The response was overwhelming and so many sisters volunteered to take the place of the martyred sisters. Many women continued to join the community. In 1908 eight sisters were sent to the Coal Regions of Pennsylvania to work among the immigrants.
by Father Chevalier with the preparation of German Missionary Sisters.
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