!!!Missionsvereinigungen und -häuser

Missionary Associations and Mission Houses: In 1829 the first Austrian 
missionary society, the "Leopoldinenstiftung" ("Leopold Foundation"), 
was established to support the Catholic mission in America (dissolved 
before World War I). The St. Peter Claver Sodality, founded by 
Countess M. T.  Ledóchowska in Salzburg, is a welfare 
organization for the African mission. The Vienna mission society 
"Koenigin der Apostel" ("Queen of the Apostles") and its affiliated 
congregation of sisters work in Chunar near Benares in India. Various 
organisations of the  Catholic Action of Austria also make financial 
contributions, e.g. epiphany carol singing events of the Jungschar 
Catholic youth movement, family fast days of the Catholic women's 
movement, "Bruder in Not" ("Brother in Need") project of the Catholic 
men's movement. The MIVA (Mission Transportation Working Group) 
provides vehicles for missionary work. Mission houses are mainly run 
by  Missionary Orders. The national administration of the Papal 
missionary societies in Vienna ("Missio Austria") and its diocesan 
offices support missionary societies by granting financial aid, doing 
educational work, providing information or by organizing solidarity 
projects.


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