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Gaston Crauwels (1923—1962) and Louis Crauwels (1927—1962) were Belgian missionaries of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) who were killed together with seventeen other Belgian Spiritans and one Dutch brother by radical African nationalist elements of the national army Armée Nationale Congolaise on new year's day 1962, during the Kongolo Massacre. In 2019, the Diocese of Kongolo started the process of beatification of the twenty missionaries, including the Crauwels brothers.
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- ↑ World Gazetteer: Congo (Dem. Rep.): largest cities and towns and statistics of their population [ dead link ] Mars 2011
- ↑ "ARRÊTÉ DÉPARTEMENTAL 79/BCE/TPAT/60/004/79 portant fixation des listes des routes constituant le réseau des routes nationales et régionales dans la République du Zaïre" (PDF) (PDF) (in French). 28 February 1979. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ↑ "RD.Congo. Beatification of twenty martyr missionaries on track". 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
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