Arnold Verstraelen: Perbedaan antara revisi

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'''Mgr. Arnold Verstraelen, [[S.V.D.]]''' ({{lahirmati|[[Sevenum]], [[Limburg (Belanda)|Limburg]], [[Belanda]]|19|7|1882|[[Nusa Tenggara Timur]], [[Hindia Belanda]]|15|3|1932}}) adalah [[Vikaris Apostolik]] [[Keuskupan Agung Ende|Kepulauan Sunda Kecil]] sejak ditunjuk pada 13 Maret 1922 sampai meninggal dunia pada 15 Maret 1932.

 

== Karya ==

 

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Maximum Illud dari Paus Benedictus XV pada tahun 1919.

 

Namun, dia tidak pernah membayangkan bahwa dirinya yang baru saja tiba di Flores langsung diberi kepercayaan untuk memulai satu tugas yang belum pernah dilaksanakan sebelumnya. Uskup Verstraelen memang mempunyai visi tentang Gereja Nusa Tenggara yang turut dipimpin oleh tenaga imam pribumi. Namun, dia tidak mempunyai gambaran yang sangat jelas mengenai bagaimana program pembinaan para calon pribumi itu harus dilaksanakan.<ref>http://derosaryebed.blogspot.co.id/2012/09/ledalero-mulanya-bukit-angker-1.html</ref><Ref>http://www.seminariledalero.org/sejarah-singkat</ref>

Pada tahun 1932 Ada dua hal yang menjadi prioritas saat Uskup Nusa Tenggara Monsinyor Arnold Verstraelen, SVD (1882-1932) menugaskan pembuatan film-film rekaan dari Flores: ketepatan detil etnografis dan perlakuan yang peka terhadap warga lokal.<ref>http://www.marlin-bato.com/2015/04/lembah-ndona-di-dunia-maya-roman-adat_22.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> -->

<!--Mgr. Arnold Verstraelen, SVD lahir pada tanggal 19 Juli tahun1882 di Sevenum Provinsi selatan Limburg, Belanda. Beliau adalah putra seorang Kepala Sekolah Dasar. Ia belajar seminari menengah SVD di Steijl, kemudian belajar Filsafat dan Theologi di Wina dan ditahbisakan pada tanggal 24 Pebruari tahun 1907, ketika ia berumur 24 tahun enam bulan. Setelah tahbisannya ia dikirim ke misi SVD Jerman di Togo, Afrika Barat. Tahun 1912, ketika ia sedang berlibur, ia diminta untuk menemani P. Piet Noyen, SVD untuk pos misi baru di Hindia Belanda. Ia adalah pastor SVD ke dua yang tiba di Timor setelah Piet Noyen. Ia menemani P. Noyen selama berkeliling di Timor Tengah. Setelah perpindahan P. Piet Noyen ke Ndona, P. Verstraelen adalah pemimpin misi di Timor. Selama bertugas di Timor dari tahun 1913 – 1922, ia pernah bertugas di Lahurus, Halilulik, dan balik ke Lahurus.

<!--His successor was Arnold Verstraelen, born 1882 in the Netherlands and between 1907 and 1912 a missionary in the German colonial territory of Togo, West Africa. From 1913 until 1922 he was the leader (and for several years the only priest) in the Timor mission. He was the first to see the results of the great financial subsidies for education from the side of the colonial govern-ment. He died in 1932 because of a car accident on the new Flores 'highway A horse, not yet accustomed to the sound of cars, panicked and the bishop's driver could not control the car either. In the decade of the pastoral leadership of Verstraelen the number of schools rose from 137 to 287 and the number of baptised from 60,000 to more than 200,000. The number of chapels and churches for Flores increased from 96 to 333. Therefore we may consider this as the decisive decade for the future character of Flores society and culture.<ref>https://books.google.co.id/books?id=cUoGJSs9yOUC&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246</ref> -->

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Selama menjadi Uskup, Mgr Arnold Verstraelen SVD hanya sekali mentahbiskan Uskup. Ia menjadi Uskup Pentahbis Utama bagi Mgr Anton Pieter Franz van Velsen SJ yang kala itu ditunjuk sebagai Vikaris Apostolik Batavia (kini: Keuskupan Agung Jakarta) dengan gelar Uskup Tituler Aezani (13 Mei 1924).