Jean de Dieu, Amos, Melance and Aimé are the four novices who completed their novitiate and made their temporary profession before the Superior General of the Doctrinaries, Father Sergio La Pegna, on August 24 in Gitega, Burundi, during the Mass presided over by Msgr. Jean Ntagwara, Bishop Emeritus of Bubanza.
During the same Mass, seven young men made their perpetual profession: Richard, the Congolese Patrice, Cyprien, Bernard, Jean Claude, Libère and Bertrand. The following day, in the chapel of the doctrinaries formation house in Gitega, four young men entered the novitiate and five temporarily professed renewed their vows before the superior general.