Adolf Graf von Spreti

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Adolf Eugen Graf von Spreti SVD (born February 17, 1907 in Munich , † February 3, 1994 in Kösching ) was a German religious.

Adolf Graf von Spreti was the first of five children from the marriage of Paul Graf von Spreti (1872–1956) and Katharina Schwankl (1882–1963). He joined the religious order of the Steyler Missionaries , made his first vows in 1927 and his perpetual vows in 1930 . In 1931 he was ordained a priest and became dr. theol. PhD.

Von Spreti was provincial superior of the north German order province. Adolf Graf von Spreti was general secretary of the Society of the Divine Word (Steyler Missionaries) , the second largest missionary order of the Catholic Church, based in Rome .

Writings (religious magazines)

  • Adolf Spreti: Arnold Janssen - The suggestion 1976 31-34
  • Adolf Spreti: The blessed founder and our time. V'64, 97-101 and AJgh, 220-224
  • Adolf Spreti: The adoration of the Unbefl. Dear Mary in our society. NV'85, 58-69
  • Adolf Spreti: The Blessed Founder and Our Time, in AJyt, 293-297
  • Adolf Spreti: El Padre Fundador y nuestros tiempos. In: AJah, 458-462
  • Adolf Spreti: O Padre Fundador e os nossos tempos. In: AJoh, 406-410
  • Adolf Spreti: Założyciel a nasze czasy. ZW 12/2000, 5 pp.

literature

  • Johannes Fleckner: P. Adolf Spreti , in: J. Fleckner: So they were. Divine Word Missionaries from 19 Countries , Volume 3, Seminary: St. Augustin 1996, 311-314.
  • Index Defunctorum Societatis Verbi Divini 1875-2010. Supplementum Catalogi SVD, Apud Curiam Generalitiam SVD, Romae 2011, p. 105. [1] (PDF; 1.2 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der SPIEGEL reported ... , Der Spiegel issue 9/1957, February 27, 1957
personal data
SURNAME Spreti, Adolf Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spreti, Adolf SVD; Spreti, Adolf von; Spreti, Adolf Eugen Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1994
Place of death Koesching