| Abbreviation | MSC |
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| Formation | 8 December 1854; 171 years ago (1854-12-08) |
| Founder | Jules Chevalier |
| Type | Catholicreligious congregation |
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| Mario Abzalón Alvarado Tovar |
TheMissionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC;Latin:Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis;French:Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur) are amissionarycongregation in theCatholic Church. It was founded in 1854 byJules Chevalier atIssoudun, France, in theDiocese of Bourges.
The motto of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart is: May theSacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere![1] Thepriests,deacons andbrothers of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are known as MSCs (from theLatin,Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis). The international headquarters is in Rome with numerous communities throughout the world.[2]
Jules Chevalier founded theArchconfraternity of the Sacred Heart in 1864. In 1867 it opened its first school inChezal-Benoît in theCentre region of France.[3]
Three missionaries from Barcelona founded the first overseas mission in 1882 nearRabaul on the island ofNew Britain inPapua, where the order began a mission atYule Island in 1885.[4]
In 1885, a supply base for the Papua New Guinea mission was founded in Sydney, Australia and the Australian Province was established in 1905.[5]Bishop Gsell and other Australian MSCs such as ophthalmologistFr Frank Flynn were active in missionary work toAboriginal Australians.[6][7][8] In the mid-twentieth century, the imposingmonastery at Kensington, New South Wales was the home of the anti-Communist organiserDr P.J. ('Paddy') Ryan and the popular Catholic controversialistDr Leslie Rumble,[9] and published the long-running magazine of Catholic cultureAnnals Australasia, edited for many decades byFr Paul Stenhouse MSC.
The Congregation established provinces in the Netherlands (1894), the United States (1939), Spain (1946), Ireland (1952), Indonesia (1971) and the Dominican Republic (1986).[10]
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