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While dealing with poverty, racism, and hardships, the Oblate Sisters sought to evangelize the Black community through Catholic education. In addition to schools, the sisters later conducted night classes for women, vocational and career training, and established homes for widows and orphans. By 1832, the community had grown to eleven members.
The Oblate Sisters of Providence (OSP) is a Catholic women's religious institute founded by Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, and Father James Nicholas Joubert in 1829 in Baltimore, Maryland for the education of girls of African descent. It was the first permanent community of Black Catholic sisters in the United States.
The Oblate sisters are also very musical, emphasizing singing and playing instruments during their liturgies and sometimes writing their own music. [1] The prayer life of the order is especially Eucharistic with at least a half hour of Eucharistic adoration every day for each sister, as well as daily Mass, Liturgy of the Hours, and Rosary. As ...
Louis Brisson. An order of cloistered nuns, the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, was founded by Francis de Sales at the request of Jane Frances de Chantal in 1610. The establishment of an Oratory at Thonon, where Francis served as the first Provost, was a preparatory step toward carrying out his design, the accomplishment of which was prevented by his death.
Ursula Benincasa, (Italian: Orsola Benincasa), born around 1550 and died in Naples on 20 October 1618, was an Italian nun and mystic, declared venerable, founder of the Oblate Sisters and Hermitage of the Contemplative Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, later the Theatine Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
He consulted with Aviat, hoping that she would aid him in this endeavor. She began her path to the religious life on 11 April 1866, together with her friend Lucie Caneut, a former boarding school companion. [1] Aviat and Brisson together founded the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales on 30 October 1868 and to oversee the education of girls.
The Oblates engage in daily common prayer and acts of charity to the poor and the less fortunate. Characteristics of the congregation are a particular devotion to the Virgin Mary, to the guardian Angel and service to the Church of Rome. [1] As of 2017, there were six sisters in residence. [4]
Antonia Maria de Oviedo Schöntal (16 March 1822 – 28 February 1898) was a Swiss-Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder of the Oblate Sisters of the Most Holy Redeemer, an order that she established with the Benedictine Bishop José María Serra.