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Since 1984, the Sisters of the Holy Cross have directed their apostolate more toward pastoral and social activities. In Manchester, New Hampshire, Holy Cross Family Learning Center offers English as a Second Language (ESL) for beginners and intermediates for the growing immigrant and refugee population of the Greater Manchester. [11]
The Sisters of the Holy Cross are one of three Catholic congregations of religious sisters which trace their origins to the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross by Basil Moreau in Le Mans, France in 1837. Members designate themselves with the post-nominals CSC.
Congregation of Holy Cross (C.S.C.), the priests and brothers of Holy Cross. The sisters of the original congregation were broken off and made independent by Rome in 1856. Subsequently, the Holy Cross sisters became three independent communities of sisters, namely: The Marianites of Holy Cross (M.S.C.) (Le Mans, France)
Bernarda Heimgartner (born Maria Anna Heimgartner, 26 November 1822 – 13 December 1863) was a Swiss religious sister and the co-founder of the Sisters of the Holy Cross Menzingen. Heimgartner founded this order alongside Theodosius Florentini OFMCap in 1844 and served as its mother superior until three months before her death.
In 1869 the sisters in Indiana obtained a papal brief of separation and became the Sisters of the Holy Cross; in 1882, the Canadian congregation established a separate congregation called the Sisters of Holy Cross and the Seven Dolours. Its first superior was Julie Bertrand, named Marie de Saint-Basile. [2]
The Sisters of Holy Cross Menzingen is a Religious congregation for women in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1844 in Menzingen, Canton Zug, Switzerland by a Capuchin priest and venerable Bernarda Heimgartner. [1] The order is now international with about 1700 sisters.
In 1883, with some autonomy carved out for the Canadian houses, Marie de Saint-Basile was appointed vicar superior of the renamed Sisters of the Holy Cross and the Seven Dolours (since 1981, the Sisters of Holy Cross). [2] Further actions took place and, in 1890, Mother Marie de Saint-Basile was elected the first superior general.
The next two years saw the sisters working unceasingly, to such an extent that their health was neglected and many of the sisters fell ill, being too poor to afford the services of a doctor; Prout was called upon to nurse the sisters herself. In 1855 Prout and another Sister moved to Sutton, St Helens. She opened a school at St Mary’s ...