Sisters of Christian Education

The congregation of the sisters of Christian Education or sisters of the blue Heart is a female catholic religious institute created in France at the beginning of the 19th century.

Foundation

Founded congregation on November 21st 1817 by Louis Lafosse (1772-1839), cleaned Échauffour, and Marie-Anne Dutertre.

Statute

Institute of pontifical right.

Activity

Teaching (young girls), parochial works and missions.

Costume

The costume formerly consisted of a dress and a black wool pèlerine, of a rotten white folded around the neck, of a black wool belt, a white cap and a black veil. A large black coat was used for the exits. On the chest, the nuns carried a money cross surmounted by a blue cloth heart, which was worth to them the nickname of sisters of the blue Heart .

Historical reference marks

  • the institute is approved by the bishop of Séez in 1821.
  • 1841: transfer of the house-généralice to Nickel silver (Flowering ash)
  • 1907: transfer of the house-généralice to Turned (Belgium)
  • 1940: transfer of the house-généralice to Laval (Mayenne)
  • 1945: transfer of the house-généralice to the Villiers-on-Marne (Seine-et-Oise, today the Valley-of-Marne))
  • 1947: transfer of the house-généralice to Saint-Maur-of-Ditches (the Seine, today the Valley-of-Marne)

Current establishments or having existed

(the dates correspond to the opening of the establishments)
  • France:
House-généralice since 1947: Saint-Maur-of-Ditches (the Valley-of-Marne, Diocese of Creteil)
Houses in the Flowering ash (Échauffour, 1817, head office; Nickel silver, 1818; Gacé, 1823; Rémalard, 1826; Flers, 1837; Juvigny-under-Andaine, 1849; Tinchebray, 1856; Alençon, 1938; Berd' door, intercongregation with Providence), in Mayenne (Laval, 1919; Holy-Anne-of-Marcillé, 1941), the Apple-brandy (Cliff, 1835), North (Loos-lez-Lille, 1843; Fournes, 1857; Dunkirk, 1904; Lille (Holy-Catherine), 1907; Lille (Notre-Dame of the Treillised vineyard), 1915; Based, 1929), the Seine-Maritime (Bonsecours, 1891), Yvelines (Andrésy, 1916; Limay, 1961), the Pas-de-Calais (Béthune, 1921), the VAr (Porquerolles, 1923), the Valley-of-Marne (Vincennes, 1933; The Villiers-on-Marne, 1941; Saint-Maur-of-ditches, 1947), Ain (Hauteville, 1934)
  • the United Kingdom (England):
Farnborough (Hampshire) (1889)
Salisbury (1911)
Yateley (Surrey) (1945)
  • Belgium: Vodecq, about 1855; Turned, 1907
  • the United States: Huntington, 1905; Asheville, 1907; Attleborough, 1909; Waltham, 1910; Arlington - Marycliff, 1913; Hendersonville, in North Carolina, 1926; Milton, in Massachusetts, 1927; Winchester, in Massachusetts, 1947; Arlington - Saint-James, 1949; West- Asheville, 1961)
  • Morocco: Folds back, 1941
  • Ireland: Terenure- Dublin, 1953; Rathnew- Wicklow, 1955
  • Dahomey (today Benign): Abomey, 1958; Cotonou - Akpakpa, 1959

Statistics

  • 322 members in 1980 (source: religious orders, II, 756).

Sources

  • French catholic Almanac for 1926 , Bloud & Gay, Paris, 1926
  • catholic Directory of France , 1961.

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