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Between 1857 and 1862 ten more missionaries arrived in Oceania to help Perroton. They were all members of the "Third Order of Mary". They had a Rule, based on that of the Marist Fathers; a habit, a vow of obedience to the local Bishop, and were called "Sister", but not an official community of religious sisters. [2]
Colin called the missionary and pastoral activity of the Marists the "Work of Mary". According to Marist tradition the Society of Mary as a whole and every individual Marist is called to be an "Instrument of Mercy" for all mankind. As Mary was a healing presence in the Early Church so the Marists want to be present in the Church of their days.
The Marist Brothers are not clerics, but are devoted to educational work throughout the world and now conduct primary and secondary schools, academies, industrial schools, orphanages and retreat houses in 77 countries on five continents: Europe, Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania. The Marist Brothers have had ministries in over 100 different ...
Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters (Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo) C.S. Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini: Scalabrinian: 1895 Scarboro Foreign Mission Society: S.F.M. 1918 School Sisters of Christ the King: C.K. Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin: 1976 School Sisters of Notre Dame: S.S.N.D. Mother Caroline Gerhardinger: 1833 School ...
Eight future Marist Sisters received the habit on 8 December 1824. Soon after they were invited by Bishop Devie to go to Belley where the first profession took place on 6 September 1826. Jeanne-Marie, or Mother Saint Joseph as she was now called, was Superior General of the new Congregation till 1853, when she was urged to resign.
National Shrine of The Divine Mercy (the official website) 42°17′19.51″N 73°18′39.99″W / 42.2887528°N 73.3111083°W / 42.2887528; -73.3111083 This article about a Catholic Church in the United States church building is a stub .
The Maryknoll Sisters, (formerly the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic/Teresians) [1] are an institute of Catholic religious sisters founded in the village of Ossining, Westchester County, New York, in 1912, six months after the 1911 creation of the Maryknoll community of missionary brothers and fathers.
Boston's Basilica (official website) Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help: Photo Gallery by The Catholic Photographer; FOXNews.com, Wednesday, August 26, 2009"Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica -- commonly known as the Mission Church -- in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. ...The cavernous basilica on Tremont Street, built in the 1870s"