Roman Catholic missionaries, correctly named the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae (the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary). Founded by the Belgian priest Theophiel Verbist, in Scheut, Anderlecht, a suburb of Brussels. They are most notable for their international missionary works in China, Mongolia, the Philippines and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Scheut Fathers
{Next to the emblem of the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae, (Congregatio...
Rev. Henry Augustus Squire, an itinerant preacher. Founding President (for 21 years) of the Old Baptist Union. Born Hertford. Died Stoke Newington. Henry Squire was a Baptist minister in England i...
Writer of hymns and religious studies. Born Jemima Thompson in Islington. She planned to do missionary work in India, but illness prevented her from doing so. She married the Reverend Samuel Luke, ...
Designed by Francis Octavius Bedford. Unusually it is orientated north-south instead of east-west. This is because of a stipulation at the time that no building in Lower Norwood should be built wit...
Represented the London Congregational Union Planning Committee in 1957. From the 1934 Chronicle of the London Missionary Society: "Director of the Society, and President of the Metropolitan Auxili...
The current church was built in 1874, destroyed by enemy action on 16 April 1941, and rebuilt by 1955.
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