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The Missionaries of the Poor OJ (Latin: Missionarii Pauperum) is a Roman Catholic monastic religious institute of Brothers and Sisters dedicated to "Joyful Service with Christ on the Cross" to serve the poorest of the poor.
Columbus Hospital, Chicago, Illinois (1922) In failing health, Cabrini traveled to Chicago in 1917 to be cared for by the MSC sisters there. On December 21, 1917, she was wrapping sweets she bought as Christmas gifts for children at the Italian school. However, the next day she suddenly got sick and was rushed to Columbus Hospital.
Indeed, Columbus's expedition of 1492 included Catholic priests among the crew. Catholic missionaries were some of the first Europeans to reach many parts of French North America and British North America in the east, and Spanish North America in the Southwestern United States.
The Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross (FFSC) was founded by Brother James Wirth in 1862 in Hausen, Germany, to care for orphans, the poor, the sick, and the suffering. In 1891, three Brothers settled in Bad Kreuznach, where they began working at St. Marienwörth hospital.
Glenmary priests, brothers, and co-workers are Catholic missionaries who serve Catholic missions and ministries in 11 different dioceses in the United States. Glenmary serves the spiritual and material needs of the Catholic minority, the unchurched, and the poor by establishing the Catholic Church in small-town and rural America. [1]
The Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo (Latin: Congregatio Missionariorum a S. Carolo), commonly called the Scalabrinian Missionaries, is a Catholic religious institute of brothers and priests founded by Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza in Italy, in 1887. [1]
Its special aims were the religious instruction of the poor, the training of the clergy, and foreign missions. [ 7 ] On the eve of the French Revolution , Saint Lazare was plundered by the mob and the congregation was later suppressed; it was restored by Napoleon in 1804 at the desire of Pius VII , abolished by him in 1809 in consequence of a ...
The Maryknoll Society is (also known as the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and officially as Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America; Latin: Societas de Maryknoll pro missionibus exteris) is a Catholic society of apostolic life for men founded in the United States to serve as missionaries to the poor and marginalized.