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The Pontifical Mission Societies comprise four branches:
 Society for the Propagation of the Faith
Early in the 19th century a French young lady, Pauline Jaricot, was inspired by her brother’s letters from the missions, to start gathering small groups of people from their family-run silk factory...
 Society of the Holy Childhood (Children helping children)
Many years before the birth of the Propagation of the faith however, there was a young French noble man – Charles de Forbin-Janson, who was ordained a priest, and later on appointed as a Bishop...
 Society of St. Peter the Apostle for the Native Clergy
It all started in 1889, when mother and daughter — Stephanie and Jeanne Bigard — answered a desperate plea for help from the Missions...
 Missionary Union of the Clergy
In 1916 Father Paolo Manna, a PIME missionary serving in Myanmar (then called Burma), formed the Missionary Union of Priests and Religious, an organisation that would help him to share the spiritual graces...
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