MOB 375
Prayer card for Sister maria Assunto, martyred in China in 1905.
Price: $30.00
Missionary
MOB 374
Archive of research conducted by Father A. Mertens on the missionary Louis Hennepin, who is credited with discovering Niagara while accompanying La Salle during his exploration of the western part of New France. There is a 21-page original unpublished manuscript by Mertens titled Hennepin, naar de monding van de missisipi en bij de Sioux-Indianen (Hennepin, to the mouth of the Mississippi and among the Sioux Indians). Also included are photos and a postcard related to Hennepin as well as a 1936 booklet titled Le Pere Louis Hennepin, recollect Son allegiance, politique et religiues, dated 1936. As one of the photos are dated 1950, I assume that this was research that Martens conducted while a seminary student.
Price: $120.00
Note from the Montfort website: Alfons Maria Mertens was born on 8 August 1929 in Bütow (East Prussia). There he spent his childhood and youth, which were overshadowed by the outbreak of war. In the last weeks of the war, he was still called up for military service and was seriously injured by an exploding mine. With his family he came after the war to Cologne. From there, he found his way to our community and was from 1948 to 1952 in the mission school in Reydt. Then he entered the novitiate in Meersen (NL), where he made his first vows on 8 September 1953. From 1953 to 1959 he studied philosophy and theology in the scholasticate of the Congregation in Oirschot (NL). After his graduation, he was ordained a priest on 8 March 1959. His first appointment took him to Bonn, where he gained pastoral experience with a year in the parish of St. Elizabeth, before he was sent to Iceland in 1960. He worked there until 1971, first as the bishop’s secretary, then as Pro-Vicar and Administrator. From 1971 to 1974 he was entrusted with various tasks in Rome. In 1974 he returned to Germany and took on the task of parish-priest in Welschbillig near Trier until, on 24 February 1976, he was elected as the first Provincial of the newly established German province. With much care and commitment, he built up the structure of the province. He held this office until 1986. Thereafter he devoted himself, up to the year 2000, to the support of the Missions in Fremersdorf. In the surrounding parishes of the Saarland, he was a much sought after and welcome supply priest. In 1999, he decided to move into the abandoned monastery of Liebfrauenthal (Our Lady in the Valley) in Wied, where he served until 2007 as ‘rector ecclesiae’. As a retired priest, he spent the years 2007-2011 in Rissenthal. His health became increasingly fragile, so that he had to move into our house in Fremersdorf after a period in hospital in the spring of 2011. More hospitalizations were necessary as his health and strength deteriorated and he became ever more dependent on aid. In April 2013, therefore, he had to move to Dillingen to the St. Francis Home, where he died on May 9, 2013.
MOB 373
Advert card for the Union de Enfermos Misioneros.
Price: $10.00
MOB 372
Brochure for the Claretin Missionay Sisters. They operate in Argentina, Colombia, USA, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela and Zaire.
Price: $30.00
MOB 371
15 page booklet on Maria Antonia Paris (1813-1885). 1985. She was a Spanish Catholic visionary and nun, born in Vallmoll, Spain, who, inspired by mystical experiences of Christ calling for Church renewal, co-founded the Claretin Missionay Sisters in Cuba with St. Anthony Mary Claret in 1855, dedicating her life to education and evangelization, especially for disadvantaged girls, and is now recognized as Venerable by the Catholic Church.
Price: $60.00
MOB 370
Un Alma Misionera. Madrid, 1957. 105 pages. Not shown in Wordcat.
Price: $150.00
MOB 369
125 issues of El Reino del Crazon de Jesus. No library in the USA holds this.
Price: $3750.00
MOB 368
Brochure for the Museo Africano Mundo Negro in Madrid. It was founded by the Misioneros Combonianos in 1985.
Price: $30.00
MOB 367
Misioneras de Jesus, Maria y Jose Esperanza en el infierno de Ruanda. Diario de una Mision, by Koncha de Juan y Miguel Platon. Madrid, 1994. 212 pages.
Price: $90.00
MOB 366
Rebelde y Obediente Monje y Misionero, by Wilhelm Hunermann. 1987. 432 pages. No USA library holds this.
Price: $90.00