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  2. Handmaiden - Wikipedia

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    A handmaiden (nowadays less commonly handmaid or maidservant) is a personal maid or female servant. [1] (The term is also used metaphorically for something whose primary role is to serve or assist.) [1] Depending on culture or historical period, a handmaiden may be of enslaved status or may be simply an employee.

  3. Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Rafaela resigned as the first Superior General in 1893, spending the next 32 years in prayer and contemplation at the congregation's house in Rome. She died in Rome, on 6 January 1925. Rafaela Maria Porras y Ayllon was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1952 and canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI. She is known as Saint Raphaela Mary of the Sacred ...

  4. Servants of Jesus and Mary - Wikipedia

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    The Servants of Jesus and Mary (Servi Jesu et Mariae – SJM) are a Roman Catholic congregation which was founded in 1988 by Andreas Hönisch, a former Jesuit, expelled by his congregation due to his Traditionalist Catholic views on both theology and pedagogy. The first members were the German Catholic Scouts of Europe founded in Giessen 1976. [1]

  5. Mary, mother of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Mother of God: Mary, as the mother of Jesus, is the Theotokos (God-bearer), or Mother of God. Virgin birth of Jesus: Mary conceived Jesus by action of the Holy Spirit while remaining a virgin. Perpetual Virginity: Mary remained a virgin all her life, even after the act of giving birth to Jesus.

  6. Family of Mary - Wikipedia

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    The clerical arm of the association is called Work of Jesus the High Priest (Latin: Opus Jesu Summi Sacerdotis), the members of which bear the post-nominal title Opus J.S.S. The affiliated branch of consecrated women is called the Apostolic Sisters of the Family of Mary , with the post-nominal initials F.M. [ 1 ]

  7. Housekeeper (domestic worker) - Wikipedia

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    In the great houses of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the housekeeper could be a woman of considerable power in the domestic arena. [citation needed] The housekeeper of times past had her room (or rooms) cleaned by junior staff, her meals prepared and laundry taken care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall.

  8. Acts of Reparation to the Virgin Mary - Wikipedia

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    Words of the prayer from Raccolta: . Most glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, turn thine eyes in pity upon us, miserable sinners; we are sore afflicted by the many evils that surround us in this life, but especially do we feel our hearts break within us upon hearing the dreadful insults and blasphemies uttered against thee, O Virgin Immaculate.

  9. Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters - Wikipedia

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    The congregation was founded in 1896 in the Netherlands by Arnold Janssen, a German diocesan priest who had first founded in 1875 the Society of the Divine Word in the Dutch border village of Steyl, and in 1889 the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit. Later, Janssen formed the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration congregation so that ...