ZAMBIA, the centenary of Jesuits in Zambia, 2005
a rare sight to see four Jesuits on the same first day cover:
Bishop Paul Lungu, Fr. Joseph
Moreau, Fr. Jules Torrend, and St.
Ignatius Loyola
Fr. Henri Depelchin (1822-1900) who had started St. Xavier's School Calcutta in 1859 and in 1871 had gone on to be rector at St. Xavier's College in Bombay, was chosen in 1877 by the head of the Jesutis, Fr. Peter Beckx, to lead a dozen Jesuits to the upper parts of the Zambesi river valley. By May of 1882, half of them had died and Depelchin was recalled to Belgium. But during his four year stay there before eventually heading back to India, he recruited Moreau and Torrend to try once again to establish a mission, and they succeeded.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Chikuni
ZAMBIA, 1991, the 5th centenary of Ignatius of Loyola's birth, Scott
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ZAMBIA, 2005 the centenary of Jesuits in Zambia featuring Fr. Moreau
and the Immaculate Conception Church at Chikuni
The stamp above shows the old Chikuni church in Southern Zambia, a mission station founded in 1905 by two French Jesuits, Fr. Joseph Moreau, SJ and Fr. Jules Torrend, SJ. Moreau had talked to Chief Monze in 1902, and with his permission took four young men including the chief's son to learn farming in Zimbabwe. They taught him Tonga. In 1905 they returned and as a local plaque reads: "Chikuni was founded under this tree by Fr. J. Moreau S.J. with Haatontola, Jahaliso, Bbinya and Jojo. July 14, 1905." Chikuni is also the location of the Jesuit-run Canisius Secondary School and the Jesuit-run radio station which were established much later. The church was built in 1911 by Fr. Moreau and Br. John Haupt, SJ; only the tower remains today. More
St. Peter Claver Church, Kasisi
ZAMBIA, 2005 the centenary of Jesuits in Zambia featuring Fr. Torrend and St.. Peter Claver Church at Kasisi
