The Superior General, together with his Council have opened a new international mission on an experimental basis in Tunisia in the city of Tunis. In September, two confreres will begin that mission. They are Father Firmin Mola, Congolese from the Province of Toulouse, presently working in Algiers and Brother Henry Escurel, Province of the Philippines. The mission presently is being manned by a member of the province of Toulouse, Father Jordi Llambrich who will help the confreres transition in to this new apostolic experience in a country very much a part of our Vincentian heritage. The Cathedral of Tunis is named St. Vincent de Paul. In my visit to the Cathedral, I saw that the cupola is a painting of St. Vincent in heaven with the missionaries to his left and the Daughters of Charity to his right, serving in the center the slaves of the area of Tunis.
See earlier article http://famvin.org/en/2011/01/23/vincentian-presence-in-tunisia/
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