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Blessed Mary Angela, foundress of the Felician sisters Chapel (1936) of the Felician sisters in Livonia, Michigan. The Felician Sisters, in full Congregation of Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Assisi (abbreviated CSSF), is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of and live in common.
The Congregation of Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Assisi, also known as the Felician Sisters, was founded in 1855 by Sophia Truszkowska in Warsaw. There are 1800 sisters, of whom 700 serve in the North American Province. Other provinces are based in Kraków, Przemyśl, Warsaw, and Curitiba, Brazil. They ...
The Felician Sisters originated in Poland and came to the United States in 1874, which became its main base. The sisters provided social mobility for young Polish women. Although the congregation was involved in the care of orphans, the aged, and the sick, teaching remained its primary concern. [37]
Briar Cliff University (Sioux City, Iowa) - Sisters of St. Francis of Dubuque; Felician University (Lodi, New Jersey) - Felician Sisters; Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) - known as Our Lady of the Lake College until 2016
Mother of Good Counsel Home, St. Louis, Missouri; operated by the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George; Mother of Good Counsel, Homewood, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; see List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
F. Felician Sisters; Franciscan Apostolic Sisters; Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary; Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
Hedwig Borzęcka, sometimes written as Jadwiga Borzęcka, (1 February 1863 – 27 September 1906) was a religious sister and the co-foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection along with her natural mother, Celine Borzecka. [1] [2] She was born in the Russian Empire. Her father was Józef Borzęcki.
He learned their language and published an Indian-Polish dictionary for the Felician sisters. He worked to convert them to Christianity and there are records of native baptisms in parish registers. Dąbrowski urged the Resurrectionists to come to Chicago or Milwaukee and establish schools of higher education where they might send out ...