Arnold Verstraelen: Perbedaan antara revisi

Ide pendirian gereja ini datang dari Uskup Mgr. Verstraelen, sebagai tempat ibadah umat Katolik, dan sekaligus sebagai gereja Katedral Keuskupan Sunda Kecil. Peletakan batu pertama pembangunan gereja ini dilakukan dengan upacara yang dipimpin oleh Uskup Mgr. Arnold Verstraelen, SVD pada 18 Mei 1930. Persiapan pembangunan gereja dipercayakan kepada Pastor Paroki, Pater Huijlink. Proses pembangunan gereja ini memakan waktu sekitar dua tahun, dengan ditandai dengan pentasbihan oleh Uskup Mgr. Arnold Verstraelen pada 7 Februari 1932. -> Gereja Katolik Paroki Kristus Raja Katedral Ende <ref>http://kekunaan.blogspot.co.id/2015/12/gereja-katolik-paroki-kristus-raja.html</ref>

<!--Arnold Verstraelen was born in 1882 in Sevenum, the southern province of Limburg, the Netherlands, as the son of the head of a primary school. He went to the SVD minor seminary in Steijl and studied philosophy and theology in Vienna. After ordination to the priesthood in 1907 he was sent to the German SVD mission in Togo, West Africa. In 1912, while on leave from his work in Togo, he was asked to join Noyen for the new mission in the Dutch East Indies. From 1913 to 1922 he was the leader (and for several years the only priest) of the Timor mission. He was appointed as Noyen's successor, in a higher eccle-siastical grade, as vicar apostolic. This meant that he was appointed bishop in partibus infidelium.167 As a bishop, Verstraelen was the equal of the vicar apos-tolic of Batavia, although important deliberations with the central government remained entrusted to his colleague in Batavia. During the rapid expansion of mission work in the 1920s Verstraelen provided firm leadership. He continued Noyen's centralized planning and financing. He not only received more per-sonnel and money from abroad, he also started the minor seminary at Todabelu and initiated the plantations at Nangahale and Riangwulu, as an effort to move towards financial independence for the mission. Missionaries of German de-scent considered him too close to Dutch colonial politics. In debates with the religious superior, the German B. Glanemann, the latter had to acknowledge the authority of the vicar apostolic.168 Verstraelen died on 16 March 1932 in a car accident. A horse, not yet accustomed to the sound of a car on the quiet Flores Road, panicked and fell into the steep valley beside the road, together with its rider. Father Jan Bouma, who was Bishop Verstraelen's driver, could not control the car, which collided with a big stone. The bishop was thrown out of the car and died immediately. Bishop Verstraelen was remembered as a very enthusiastic and warm personality, full of initiative and charisma. Arnold Verstraelen followed the general mission strategy as designed by Piet Noyen. Ende-Ndona remained the central post for the mission. The rapid expansion of schools (from 137 to 287) and mission stations resulted in a spec-tacular growth of baptized Catholics: from about 60,000 in 1921 (for the whole area of the Lesser Sunda Islands) to more than 200,000 in early 1932. The number of churches and chapels increased in that period from 96 to 333. He could show that the bright promises painted by his predecessor could really be executed in a process of steady growth. Immediately after his appointment in 1922, Verstraelen visited the Netherlands to be ordained as bishop, but also to collect funds. He wrote regularly in the SVD monthly De Katholieke Missien, where he abundantly thanked the generous believers in the Netherlands and America, showed photographs of the churches they had financed, and also unashamedly asked for more money. From July 1930 until August 1931 he re-turned to Europe and visited America to guarantee the financial basis for the missionary enterprise. He sent two of his priests, Simon Buis and P. Beltjens, to a film academy in New York and for training to Hollywood to be qualified to make the films Ria Rago and Amorira, the main tools in the fund-raising in Europe for the Flores mission.<ref>https://books.google.co.id/books?id=bc5gAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129</ref> -->

Ia menjabat sampai wafat pada tanggal 15 Maret 1932 karena kecelakaan mobil.