Genèse de la présence jésuite en République Dé-mocratique du Congo après la restauration

AUTEURS :  ANICET NTEBA &  DIEUDONNE MBIRIBINDI BAHATI

ABSTRACT

As we celebrate the bicentunary of the restoration of the So-ciety of Jesus, this article would like to commemorate, that is to remember the time of the Jesuit pioneers, and builders. All those who sew the seeds of Evangelization in the DR Congo, as they laid down the foundation of the first missionary sta-tions Kisantu, Wombali and Kwilu, beginning in 1879 and ending in 1935. What ways and pains did they endured, with courage and zeal! Moving from the proto-genesis to the gene-sis and the expansion of Jesuit presence in DR Congo after the restoration, this narrative is the expression of our gratitude, and the awareness of our own responsability vis-à-vis the Je-suit legacy in this part of Africa. Let this be a token to the bi-centunary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus: our ad multos annos! As heirs of a tradition to be recreated with im-petus, and an unquenched fervor, we invite the upcoming ge-nerations of Jesuits to live up to the call Ite, Inflammate Om-nia.