• Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus (Madeleine Hutin). Madeleine Hutin, taking the name Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus, founded the Little Sisters of...
    23 KB (3,471 words) - 14:16, 23 June 2024
  • The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie) is a teaching religious institute founded at Longueuil, Québec...
    6 KB (439 words) - 13:41, 18 December 2023
  • Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus (26 April 1898 – 6 November 1989), founded a Roman Catholic community of religious sisters, the Little Sisters of Jesus...
    16 KB (2,207 words) - 20:07, 10 November 2024
  • The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Catholic female religious congregation founded in 1880 by Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini. Their...
    7 KB (719 words) - 13:38, 13 November 2024
  • The Little Sisters of the Poor (French: Petites Sœurs des Pauvres) is a Roman Catholic religious institute for women. It was founded by the Catholic saint...
    11 KB (996 words) - 22:46, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Little Brothers of Jesus
    The Little Brothers of Jesus (Latin: Institutum Parvolorum Fratrum Iesu; French: Petits Frères de Jésus; abbreviated PFJ) is a male religious congregation...
    8 KB (760 words) - 06:55, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
    death in 1837, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary had 276 priests and brothers and 1125 sisters. In 1840 the Brothers founded a house...
    8 KB (854 words) - 05:13, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sisters of Charity
    term Sisters of Charity in their name. Some Sisters of Charity communities refer to the Vincentian tradition alone, or in America to the tradition of Saint...
    9 KB (930 words) - 16:17, 15 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sisters of Mercy
    the little group might be known, and she chose that of "Sisters of Mercy", having the design of making the works of mercy the distinctive feature of the...
    43 KB (4,561 words) - 15:35, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Society of the Sacred Heart
    with the sisters, taking care of the children, cooking, washing and gardening. ... It is known that the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus had enslaved...
    13 KB (1,417 words) - 01:26, 29 October 2024
  • Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose members are commonly known as the Loreto Sisters, is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women dedicated...
    24 KB (2,587 words) - 13:54, 30 September 2024
  • Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus (1898–1989), founder of the Little Sisters of Jesus Little Sisters of the Lamb, a branch of a Roman Catholic religious...
    4 KB (504 words) - 06:21, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Passionists
    Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (Latin: Congregatio Passionis Iesu Christi), abbreviated CP, are a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical...
    18 KB (2,145 words) - 04:35, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jesuits
    The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ˈdʒɛʒuɪts, ˈdʒɛzju-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-;...
    202 KB (22,886 words) - 16:06, 20 November 2024
  • theologian and founder of the Little Brothers of Jesus in 1933, the Little Brothers of the Gospel in 1956, and the Little Sisters of the Gospel [fr] in 1963...
    5 KB (589 words) - 02:26, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dominican Order
    Dominican Sisters, King William's Town. Archived from the original on 2016-01-12. "Dominican Missionary Sistersof the Sacred Heart of Jesus". Dominican...
    95 KB (11,496 words) - 23:03, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bridgettines
    treatment of the Indian sisters who form a large percentage of the order. This became public in 2002 when six Indian sisters from different houses of the order...
    14 KB (1,621 words) - 17:52, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maryknoll Sisters
    Maryknoll Sisters, (formerly the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic/Teresians) are an institute of Catholic religious sisters founded in the village of Ossining...
    9 KB (967 words) - 14:05, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faithful Companions of Jesus
    The Faithful Companions of Jesus Sisters (FCJ Sisters, French: Fidèles compagnes de Jésus) is a Christian religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church...
    4 KB (432 words) - 19:35, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carmelites
    the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday) for all Catholics. Therese of Lisieux emerged as one of the most popular...
    46 KB (6,083 words) - 16:10, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Poor Clares
    companions a monastery adjoining the chapel of San Damiano where she became abbess. Clare's mother, two of her sisters and some other wealthy women from Florence...
    28 KB (3,143 words) - 19:47, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Enclosed religious orders
    otherwise, they are religious sisters. The distinctions between the Christian terms monk, nun, friar, Brother, and Sister are sometimes easily blurred...
    9 KB (886 words) - 10:37, 4 October 2024
  • 1894 she became a postulant in the Episcopal community of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus in Albany, New York, where she made her vows on Sept. 25...
    14 KB (1,740 words) - 09:42, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cenobitic monasticism
    religious order, and the life of the cenobitic monk is regulated by a religious rule, a collection of precepts. The older style of monasticism, to live as a...
    15 KB (1,784 words) - 09:31, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb
    The Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb (French: Les Petites Soeurs Disciples de l'Agneau) is a Roman Catholic religious institute for women based in...
    5 KB (428 words) - 09:22, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles de Foucauld
    Spiritual Family Association brings together the Little Brothers of Jesus, the Little Sisters of Jesus and 18 other religious orders and associations for...
    33 KB (3,363 words) - 13:06, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thérèse of Lisieux
    popularly known in English as the Little Flower of Jesus, or simply the Little Flower, and in French as la petite Thérèse ("little Therese"). Therese has been...
    134 KB (17,690 words) - 19:12, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for De La Salle Brothers
    Salle met Adrian Nyel in a chance encounter at the Convent of the Sisters of the Infant Jesus. Nyel asked for La Salle's help in opening free schools for...
    36 KB (3,851 words) - 02:08, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mendicant orders
    Jesuits or Society of Jesus, founded in 1540, and for a time considered a mendicant order, before being classed instead as an Order of Clerics Regular....
    7 KB (839 words) - 17:13, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ursulines
    of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Grey Ursulines) École des Ursulines, Quebec Dorothy Kazel Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of...
    28 KB (3,289 words) - 14:56, 18 November 2024