Monday, December 20, 2010

French Canadian Jesuits Expelled From Haiti 50 Years Ago

Haiti February 5, 1964, 15 armed security guards
(the feared ton ton macoutes) arrived and searched for five hours and then trucked the Jesuit missionaries to the Archbishop's Palace and held under house arrest. 
Fearing the deportation of their teachers and the 60 seminarians at the Great Seminary of Port Au Prince, the only seminary in Haiti.
Link (here) to read the full article in The Montreal Gazette and see a picture of the Jesuit seminary in Haiti.

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