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The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph was founded by Jean-Pierre Médaille (although older accounts attribute this to his brother, Jean Paul). Medaille sought to establish an ecclesiastically approved congregation of women who would profess simple vows, live in a small group, with no specific apostolates and would dress in a common garb of the women of their day.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (CSJ) are a Roman Catholic congregation of women religious which traces its origins to a group founded in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, around 1650 by Jean Pierre Medaille, S.J. The design of the congregation was based on the spirituality of the Society of Jesus.
The German Sisters were forced to leave Alsace after the end of World War I and to seek new premises in Germany, which they found in the former St. Trudpert's monastery in Münstertal. The first Sisters moved there in 1919 and the following year they established a separate Province of St. Trudpert within the Congregation.
The Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille aka Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Bourg was a Roman Catholic congregation of women. Its forebear, the Congregation of Sisters of Saint Joseph was started in Le Puy, France by the Jesuit Jean Pierre Médaille and accepted by the bishop, Monsignor de Maupas, on October 15, 1650.
The congregation was founded on September 12, 1877 in La Providence (a municipality which merged in 1976 with Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec) by the Blessed Louis-Zéphirin Moreau (1824-1901), bishop of the diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe, and the venerable Élisabeth Bergeron.
In 1962 sisters were sent to Puerto Rico and Peru, in 1971 to Brazil, and in 1981 to South Africa. In 1967 the Rice Lake Franciscan Sisters merged with the SSJ-TOSF; 32 sisters joined the Chicago Province. In 1990 one centralized governance structure replaced the former three provinces. [1] The Central Service Offices were located to St. Joseph ...
The Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Hyacinthe is a religious order founded at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, on 12 September 1877, by the bishop of that diocese, Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, for the Christian instruction of children and the visitation and care of the sick. Civil incorporation was granted 30 June, 1881, and canonical institution 19 ...
A sister in Jerusalem in 1956 The St. Joseph Hospital in East Jerusalem, which was founded by the order. The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition (French: Sœurs de Saint-Joseph-de-l'Apparition; Latin: Institutum Sororum a S. Joseph ab Apparitione; abbreviation: S.J.A.) is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and ...