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Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - It is fifty years since the first Oblate Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family OHF arrived in Taiwan. The congregation was founded in mainland China by Saint Josef Freinademetz the first Divine Word missionary to China. As part of anniversary celebrations the nuns visited their first community home and school in Tai Nan diocese where the path of 50 years of evangelisation started. The bulletin of Tai Pei diocese Christian Life Weekly reports that in Tai Nan diocese OHF nuns from the dioceses of Tai Pei, Tai Chung, Chia Yi, Hsin Chu, Kao Siung, celebrated at the first school opened by the order, De Guang Girls School which today belongs to the diocese of Tai Nan. The religious returned to the place where it all started to retrace the steps of the first Sisters and to thank God and thank the diocese which welcomed them. During the anniversary ceremony they reflected on 50 years of mission and presented the situation and vocations of the community in mainland China.
Saint Josef Freinademetz founded the Oblate Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family on 2 October 1910 in the diocese of Yan Zhou, Shan Dong province where he was known as Father of the Church of LuNan, southern Shan Dong. The new community worked with the Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit (Divine Word). Today, true to the missionary dedication of their founder, 40 Oblate Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family working in Leprosy Centres in the provinces of Si Chuan, Shan Xi, Yun Nan and Guang Dong. (Agenzia Fides 14/06/2006 Righe: 29 Parole: 322)
