The Brothers of Charity were founded in 1807 at Ghent, Belgium, by Pierre Joseph Triest (1760-1836) for nursing and...
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Connect and Learn: Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul
The Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul was founded in Ukraine (in the Byzantine rite) by...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Satu-Mare
They were founded 1842 by Bishop John Ham (1781-1804) in Satu-Mare (Szatmar, then Austria-Hungary, now Romania) for...
Connect and Learn: Soeurs de la Toussaint (Strassburg)
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Strassburg (Soeurs de la Toussaint) were established 1734 at Saverne, France, by Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan Soubise, prince bishop of Strasbourg (1704-1749) to address the pressing needs of the poor, especially...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity – Halifax
The story of the Canadian foundation of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax begins when four American ladies, black-robed, black-capped, landed in Halifax from the Cunard liner "Cambria" on May 11, 1849. They came from New York City, these first Sisters of Charity, in...
Connect and Learn: Daughters of Divine Love
The Daughters of Divine Love Congregation by the special grace of God, without affiliations to any foreign Congregation is the first veritable indigenous Congregation of Women Religious, the fruit of the labour of the early Missionaries in Nigeria. Founded in Ukpor in...
Federation of Sisters of Charity of Strasbourg
After the Second Vatican Council, in 1971 ten German and Austrian communities descended from the Strasbourg foundation became a federation. In 1994 the member communities of the Vincentian Federation (Germany) became affiliated to the large family of Vincent de Paul...
Connect and Learn: Vincentian Congregation – India
The Vincentian Congregation is a clerical society in the Syro-Malabar Church with its Generalate at Edappally in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly. It comes under the category of the Societies of Common Life according to the manner of religious. It is of...
Connect and Learn: The Congregation of the “Hermanas Josefinas”
The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Mexico (Hermanas Josefinas) was founded on September 22, 1872 by Father José María Vilaseca Aguilera, CM and Cesárea Ruiz de Esparza y Dávalos … its members work in building up the Kingdom of God. José Maria Vilaseca...
Connect and Learn: Religious of St. Vincent de Paul
Founded in 1845 at Paris, France, in the chapel at the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Mission by Jean Leon Le Prevost (1803-1874) in conjunction with Clemente Myionnet (1812-1886) and Maurizion Maignen (1822-1890). All three founders were laity who were active...
