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The Sisters of Holy Cross, (Soeurs de Sainte-Croix) headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is an international Catholic congregation of religious sisters which traces its origins to the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1837 in Le Mans, France by the Blessed Father Basil Anthony-Marie Moreau, CSC.
The Sisters of Holy Cross motherhouse is located in Notre Dame, Indiana. They are distinct from the Sisters of the Holy Cross Menzingen , a teaching congregation founded in Switzerland in 1844. Early history
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 Congregation of Holy Cross (Latin: Congregatio a Sancta Cruce), abbreviated CSC, [1] is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in 1837 by Basil Moreau, in Le Mans, France.
In 1853, she felt called to enter the order of the Sisters of Mercy.She went to Notre Dame, Indiana, to bid farewell to her brother who was there engaged in his studies for the priesthood, and there she met Edward Sorin, Provincial Superior of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the United States, through whose influence she was led to cast her lot with this small and struggling community.
Basil Moreau, C.S.C. (February 11, 1799 – January 20, 1873) was the French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross from which two additional congregations were founded, namely the Marianites of Holy Cross and the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Moreau was beatified on September 15, 2007 in Le Mans, France.
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.
Holy Cross College (Notre Dame, Indiana) - also associated with Brothers of Holy Cross; King's College (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) Our Lady of Holy Cross College (New Orleans, Louisiana) St. Edward's University (Austin, Texas) Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, Indiana) - Sisters of the Holy Cross; Stonehill College (Easton, Massachusetts)