75 2.1 Institutes Established by Members of the Congregation of the Mission
75 2.1 Institutes established by members of the Congregation of the Mission. BELGIUM 2.1-BEL.926.0 Society of Auxiliaries of the Missions Founded 1926 at Louvain, Belgium, by Reverend Vincent Lebbe, CM., (1877-1940), with the collaboration of Reverend Andrew Boland (1891-1955, superior 1930-1947) as an institute of diocesan right to support missionary efforts (especially in China) for native vocations. The Samist vocation envisions an alliance of perfect missionary char ity with the humility to renounce any vestiges of European superior ity. (See 2.1-CHI.928.0 and 2.1-eHI.929.0.)73 (Generalate: 244 Chaussee de Waterloo; 1060 Brussels, Belgium.) BRAZIL 2.1-BRA.924.0 Institute of Daughters ofMary, Servants of Charity Founded 1924 at Recife, Brazil, by Reverend Jose Venancio de Melo, CM.," (1866-1938), and Maria Mercedes de Rocha Carvalho to serve the poorest of the poor in a spirit of love and thirst for justice in the Vincentian tradition. Became an institute of women from the lay Company ofCharity (see L-2.1-BRA.919.0) that subsequently included men and women. It later developed into an institute of diocesan right for women. Its rule is based on the Common Rules of the Daughters of Charity." (Generalate: Rua Jose de Alencar, 611, Boa Vista, Recife, Brazil.) 73DIP, S.v. "Societa degli Ausiliari delle Missioni" 8: 1592; "Lebbe, Vincent" 5: 554-56; "Neve, ThOOdore" 6: 281; Pierre Mertens, Societas Auxiliarium Missionmn, 13 April 1993, Survey 5-52, VSI Family Tree Project; Martin Dehlinger, D.C, to Betty Ann McNeil, D.C., 3 March 1993, Taipei, Taiwan; Jacques Leclercq, Thunder in the Distance--the Life of Pm Lebbe, trans.
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