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5 unusual facts about Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate


College of the Atlantic

The majority of the campus was purchased for $1 USD from the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate Seminary, who used the site as a monastery.

Friedrich Lorenz

Friedrich Lorenz (10 June 1897 in Klein Freden – 13 November 1944 in Halle) was a Catholic priest and a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation, a broadcasting network managed by the Philippine branch of the oblate

It was founded on January 25, 1816 by Saint Eugene de Mazenod, a French priest born in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on August 1, 1782.

Regulation 17

The newspaper Le Droit, which is still published today as the province's only francophone daily newspaper, was established by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1913 to oppose the ban.


Georges-Hilaire Dupont

Dupont was born in Virey, France and was ordained a priest on May 9, 1943 from the religious order Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Methye Portage

Along the Portage Trail there were marked graves from the fur trade era according to the following Oblate account written in 1933 by Father Louis Moraud (translation).


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