Henry J. Koren Spiritan East Africa Memorial He made his vows in Orly on November 15, 1905, studied theology in Cheviily

and was ordained there on November 5, 1905. After a year in Fribourg he received his appointment to the missions. Oon March 19, 1907 he saired from Naples to the Zanzibar vicariate. Bp. Alrgeyer

assigned him to the Bura mission to become familiar with life in the Kenya colony.He must have done well, for in 1909 we find him as director and mission procurator for the vicariate in the harbor town of Mombasa. One year later he became director of the Kutanga station of the Mangu mission, and then in 1911 of the new Gatanga post. It was quite a f that this post could have been opened. No less than "a few kilograms" of correspondence, we read in the report of that time, had accumulated before the govemor yielded and allowed it to be established. It was taken over by the Consolate Fathers in 1916. World 

War one wrecked atl plans for expanding the Spiritan missions. Like

several other Fathers, he was mobilized by the French Army and had to retum home for the duration of the war. ln 1919 he could.sail back to Kenya. Bp. Neville sent him to Lioki as its director. It was a difficult mission.and, despite all his efforts he bookea but little success.

Father worked there-for two decades, but in 1934 the station was reduced to an annex, served from Kiambu. He himself was transferred to Nairobi to head the St. Austin's parish. He remained there till 1941 and was also the procurator for the vicariate. After four years as director of the Riruta station, we find him from 1946 on in Mangu, devoting

his diminishing energy to this mission among the Kikuyu. From the age of about 70, he spent his waning years in retirement at Miserghin,

Algeria.