The Mission House in Uden was originally a guesthouse of the sisters Ursulinen and from 1911 a Mission House of the Missionaries of Steyl, also known as the Community of Divine Word or Societas Verbi Divini, abbreviated SVD. History
In 1845, the sisters Ursulinen settled at the Volkelseweg in Uden with a guesthouse. In 1911 the building was sold to the missionaries of Steyl, who led young men to missionaries. The congregation called the mission house St. Willebrord, which also had its own printing company. In 1912, the first ministers of the Holy Spirit (also called S.Sp.S., the blue sisters or missionaries of Steyl) arrived in Uden. They were housed in the mission house until the new building on the other side was ready. At the end of 1913, they moved into their new monastery, now known as the Retraite House. During the Second World War, the mission house was confiscated by the German occupier in November 1941 and in August 1944 it was blown up by the Germans. The area where the mission house stood would become the current municipal sports park a few years later. Rows of old trees betray the places where the lanes have to run: the building itself is nothing to see again. In 1954, the new Mission House St. Willibrord was opened in Deurne. Famous Udense patrons
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