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The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), founded as the Daughters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Catholic religious teaching institute for women. The institute was founded in the Catalan city of Olot , ( Spain ) in 1848 by Father Joaquim Masmitjà i de Puig as a means of rebuilding society ...
In 1963 Anita was elected Mother General of the Immaculate Heart Sisters, and led the community in the renewal process of Vatican II. In her award-winning book Witness to Integrity: The Crisis of the Immaculate Heart Community of California she described the struggle, conflict and choice of the IHM women to form a new community.
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (I.H.M.) is a Catholic religious institute of sisters, founded in 1845 by Fr. Louis Florent Gillet, CSsR, and Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin, a co-founder of the Oblate Sister of Providence.
The Sisters ran homes for the aged and the sick, orphanages and schools. Other women came to join them and eventually the canonesses in India separated from the monastery in Belgium and formed a new religious congregation , called the Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine .
At 18 years of age, Kent entered the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, which were known to be very progressive and welcomed creativity. Frances joined a teaching order, taking the name Sister Mary Corita. She received a bachelor's degree at Immaculate Heart College and a master's degree at University of Southern California. She was the head of ...
The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary founded, owned, and conducted the Immaculate Heart High School in 1905 in Los Angeles, California. [1] It has six female graduates by June 1906. [ 1 ] In the following decades, both Immaculate Heart High School and the College soon established their reputations as an excellent university preparatory ...
The school is located in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.It was founded by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1906 as a girl's day and boarding school.Although the school remains on its original site, much of the original Spanish Mission style convent, classrooms and boarders' dormitories were torn down in 1973.
The congregation is now called the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The work of the sisters continued to spread through the continent of Africa, expanding to West Africa, and then to both North America and to South America as well as to Asia. In 2019, the community celebrated the 100 anniversary of the ...