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Fr. Theophile Verbist was born in 1823 in Belgium and was ordained as a priest in 1847. In 1860, he was appointed National Director of the Holy Childhood and began planning to become a missionary. He founded the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM) in 1862 to send missionaries to China. In 1865, Verbist led the first group of CICM missionaries to China, where he and others suffered from typhoid fever. Verbist passed away from typhoid fever in 1868 at the age of 45, fulfilling his role as the

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Jose Pala

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