M issionnaires d'Afrique M issionaries of Africa. Who was Brother Amans? Brother Amans, peinture. He arrived at the brothers' novitiate in Algiers on the 3rd September at the age of twenty-four and received the habit on the 3rd December of the same year.
We do not know how he had spent the years since he had left school, but coming from a small village, it is likely that his family were farmers. His personal file contains only two items: a paper with the names of his parents and the date of his birth, and the text of his oath he which he wrote out in his own hand.
The first brothers in the Society had taken vows, but the chapter of substituted for them an oath Amans was the eighteenth brother to take the oath in the Society.
The text is rather different from the one in use today. Here it is, just as he wrote it. It is dated 18th October when he was already in Uganda.
It marked the end of his novitiate for on the 1st February , only fourteen months after taking the habit, the Cardinal had selected him for the first caravan to East Africa. He was the only brother in the chosen group.
