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Since 1984, the Sisters of the Holy Cross have directed their apostolate more toward pastoral and social activities. In Manchester, New Hampshire, Holy Cross Family Learning Center offers English as a Second Language (ESL) for beginners and intermediates for the growing immigrant and refugee population of the Greater Manchester. [11]
The Sisters of Holy Cross motherhouse is located in Notre Dame, Indiana. They are distinct from the Sisters of the Holy Cross Menzingen , a teaching congregation founded in Switzerland in 1844. Early history
In 1869 the sisters in Indiana obtained a papal brief of separation and became the Sisters of the Holy Cross; in 1882, the Canadian congregation established a separate congregation called the Sisters of Holy Cross and the Seven Dolours. Its first superior was Julie Bertrand, named Marie de Saint-Basile. [2]
In 1853, she felt called to enter the order of the Sisters of Mercy.She went to Notre Dame, Indiana, to bid farewell to her brother who was there engaged in his studies for the priesthood, and there she met Edward Sorin, Provincial Superior of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the United States, through whose influence she was led to cast her lot with this small and struggling community.
The Passionist Sisters (the Sisters of the Cross and Passion) is an institute founded in 1852 by Father Gaudentius Rossi, an early Passionist priest, in collaboration with Elizabeth Prout. In its beginnings, it was called "Sisters of the Holy Family", and was later included under the Passionist family.
The Sisters of Holy Cross Menzingen is a Religious congregation for women in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1844 in Menzingen, Canton Zug, Switzerland by a Capuchin priest and venerable Bernarda Heimgartner. [1] The order is now international with about 1700 sisters.
In 1883, with some autonomy carved out for the Canadian houses, Marie de Saint-Basile was appointed vicar superior of the renamed Sisters of the Holy Cross and the Seven Dolours (since 1981, the Sisters of Holy Cross). [2] Further actions took place and, in 1890, Mother Marie de Saint-Basile was elected the first superior general.
Bernarda Heimgartner (born Maria Anna Heimgartner, 26 November 1822 – 13 December 1863) was a Swiss religious sister and the co-founder of the Sisters of the Holy Cross Menzingen. Heimgartner founded this order alongside Theodosius Florentini OFMCap in 1844 and served as its mother superior until three months before her death.