The Sisters of the Sacramental Heart of Jesus was founded in Zacatecas, Mexico by San José María Robles Hurtado...
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Unaffiliated Lay Vincentians: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities
What are Unaffiliated Lay Vincentians? Considering the declining membership in many branches of the Vincentian Family...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception
Urgent needs of Irish orphans and immigrants led to the founding of this Canadian community in Saint John, New...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of the Visitation of Mary (Hungary)
The Sisters of the Visitation of Mary (Anunciata) were established in 1883 at Budapest, Hungary, by several Daughters of Charity and Krankenjungfrauen (Nursing Sisters) who were sent to make a foundation and provide health care to the poor by Sister Leopoldine de...
Connect and Learn: Missionary Catechists of the Miraculous Medal
Archbishop Francis Beckmann, C.M., (1883-1963), was the 3rd archbishop of Panama. He promoted catechetical formation by organizing the First Catechetical Congress and by creating the School of Catechists. He always insisted upon the teaching of catechism as the basis...
Connect and Learn: Brothers CMM
The Congregation of the Brothers CMM was founded in 1844 in Tilburg (The Netherlands). The Founder, Bishop Joannes Zwijsen, was deeply moved by the poverty that he encountered in this quickly growing industrial town and in the countryside around it: children without...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth were founded in 1812. Mother Catherine Spalding, along with Bishop John Baptist David, are honored together and remembered as co-founders of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.[1] In 1812, in the newly formed diocese of Bardstown,...
Connect and Learn: Society of the Sacred Mission
Founded in 1894 at London in England by Reverend Herbert Hamilton Kelly (1860-1950) as a result of earlier collaboration with C. J. Corie, Anglican bishop of Korea (consecrated 1889), in the establishment of the Korean Missionary Brotherhood for the training of...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Mary of the Miraculous Medal
The congregation of Sisters of Mary of the Miraculous Medal (Krankenjungfrauen or Nursing Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul) were founded in 1878 in Ljubljana, Slovenia but traces its roots to the 1852 when Sister Leopoldine de Brandis, D.C. (1815-1900), became the...
Connect and Learn: MISEVI
Mi.Se.Vi., Misioneros Seglares Vicencianos, is the youngest member of the Vincentian Family. Their history began in the summer of 1984 when young people from the VMY (Vincentian Marian Youth) were sent by Spain to Honduras. Some of these young people offered to give...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul – Vincentgiri, Mananthavady (SCV)
A third of the world's poor live in India, one of the most unequal societies in the world where poverty remains entrenched and widespread. Realizing the need in India the Congregation of The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul started their mission in India,...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill
In 1869, Bishop Michael Domenec, C.M., of Pittsburgh appealed to the Cincinnati community of Sisters of Charity for sisters to serve the needs of the growing Catholic population in his diocese. Sister Aloysia Lowe, three other Sisters of Charity, and two novices, left...
