Polskie siostry zakonne współpracujące z rodakami-fideidonistami w Kamerunie

Abstract

The female missionary order working in Cameroon were German Pallotin sisters. With the development of missions more and more sisters and order arrived there. With time domestic religious orders were established. Among the religious sisters working in Cameroon there were Poles as well. Sisters of Charity and Sisters of Servitude were among those who arrived here first. They collaborated with Polish Oblates, who from 1970 onward were on mission in northern Cameroon. Sisters from eight Polish religious orders worked in Cameroon. Four orders helped religious missionaries (sisters of St. Joseph, Pallotins, Sisters of Servitude and Sisters of Charity), and four others (Dominicans, Michaelites, Passionists, and Sisters of the Holiest Soul of Christ the Lord) helped Polish Fideidonists. The missionary work of the latter four orders make the subject-matter of the paper. The first part is a very general outline of the realities in Cameroon. An emphasis has been laid in particular on the sector of education and health service, for it is mainly in those two that sisters worked. The second part contains a description of a concrete missionary activity.