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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]
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.
In 1846 Bishop Ignace Bourget of Montreal asked Moreau, whom he had visited at Holy Cross, to send him sisters whom he might establish in his diocese. Four religious were sent in 1847 and founded their first house in the village of St. Lawrence, near Montreal. [2] In 1856, Rome approved the constitutions of Holy Cross for the men.
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.
Congregation of Holy Cross (C.S.C.), the priests and brothers of Holy Cross. The sisters of the original congregation were broken off and made independent by Rome in 1856. Subsequently, the Holy Cross sisters became three independent communities of sisters, namely: The Marianites of Holy Cross (M.S.C.) (Le Mans, France)
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.