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The Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, also known as Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, or simply Holy Spirit Sisters (Latin: Congregatio Missionalis Servarum Spiritus Sancti, SSpS) is a religious congregation within the Catholic Church. The group has 3,000 members in 46 different countries.
On 8 December 1889 Stollenwerk became of postulant of a women's congregation established by Janssen, the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, [1] and on 17 January 1892 assumed the religious name Maria Virgo. She made her vows on 12 March 1894 and later became abbess on 12 August 1898.
The congregation was founded in 1896 in the Netherlands by Arnold Janssen, a German diocesan priest who had first founded in 1875 the Society of the Divine Word in the Dutch border village of Steyl, and in 1889 the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit. Later, Janssen formed the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration congregation so that ...
They are the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit (SSpS), [7] otherwise known as the "Blue Sisters" and a contemplative branch called the Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration (SSpSAP) or better known as the "Pink Sisters"; the nicknames allude to the colour of the respective religious habits.
Sisters of the Holy Ghost (Dubuque), a congregation founded in 1890, by the Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, John Hennessey; Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, the sister organisation of the Society of the Divine Word; Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate, established in 1893 at San Antonio, Texas
Professed Religious, Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit: John Conley 2 July 1898 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10 December 1943 Kieta, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea Professed Priest, Society of Mary (Marist Missionaries) Bougainville: Martyr in odium fidei: Missionary Martyrs of El Salvador (1980) Mary Elizabeth "Maura" Clarke: 13 ...
The Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (MSpS) are a Catholic religious institute founded in Mexico City in 1914 by French missionary Félix de Jesús Rougier. Father Rougier was a priest and a member of another religious order, the Society of Mary. He would receive dispensation of his vows and permission to join the new congregation 12 years later.
He founded the Society of the Divine Word, a Catholic missionary religious congregation, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, as well as two congregations for women. In 1889 he founded in Steyl, Netherlands, the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit and in 1896 at the same place the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters.