!!!Missionshaus St. Gabriel

Missionshaus St. Gabriel of the Society of the Divine Word (Steyl 
Missionaries, SVD - Societas Verbi Divini), in Maria-Enzersdorf near 
Moedling, founded 1889. The most important Austrian mission house; has 
produced excellent explorers (like W.  Schmidt, M.  Gusinde, W.  
Koppers, P.  Schebesta), who went on ethnological expeditions to South 
America, Central India and Central Africa. The Missionshaus 
St. Gabriel has its own ethnographical museum (founded 1899),a 
publishing house, two bookshops and a philosophical-theological 
university.

!Publications
St. Gabrieler Studien; "Stadt Gottes" (family 
magazine); "Weite Welt" (children´s magazine); 
St.-Michaels-Kalender.

!Literature
100 Jahre Missionshaus St. Gabriel, 1989.


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