Joseph Sisters of Lyons

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The Joseph Sisters of Lyon (French: Soeurs de Saint Joseph de Lyon , English: Sisters of Saint Joseph of Lyon , Spanish: Hermanas de San José de Lyon ; Order abbreviation: CSJ) have been a female Roman Catholic religious order since 1650 , which has been active in charitable worldwide is.

history

The Jesuit Jean-Pierre Médaille (1610–1669) founded a women's congregation in Le Puy in 1650 with the support of the local bishop Henri de Maupas (1604–1680) Rue Montferrand took over.

The rapidly expanding congregation with numerous small sister communities was dispersed by the French Revolution , but was re-established in Saint-Étienne in 1807 by the surviving Saint-Jean Fontbonne (1759–1843,) and on the initiative of Cardinal Fesch and with the help of Claude Cholleton ( 1751–1807) soon re-established in Lyon (parent company from 1816 at 26, rue des Chartreux, today also: 66, rue Pierre Dupont and 40, rue de l'Abbé Boisard).

In the 19th and 20th centuries there was a considerable expansion, first in France (especially in the southern half), from 1834 also in the USA and Canada, and from the turn of the century worldwide. In a first movement, many foundations went into business for themselves, after the Second Vatican Council there was a partial reunification. The Lyons Mother Congregation has produced 48 congregations of its own worldwide, with a total of 13,000 members in 55 countries. In addition to France, the European Province is represented in Belgium and Switzerland. There is also a separate English-Irish province. The congregation is recognized as a non-governmental organization. Her motto is: "In the heart of the world".

Superiors (incomplete)

  • 1650 - ???: Françoise Eyraud
  • 1816–1839: Saint-Jean (Jeanne) Fontbonne (1759–1843, joined Monistrol-sur-Loire in 1778)
  • 1839–1867: Marguerite-Marie-Virginie Tézenas du Montcel (sister of Sacré-Cœur de Jésus, 1795–1867)
  • 1867–1875: Marie-Louise
  • 1875– ?: Alphonse de Liguori

literature

Constitutions

  • Constitutions pour la petite congrégation des sœurs de Saint-Joseph, établies dans le diocèse de Lyon . 2nd Edition. Maison-mère des sœurs de Saint-Joseph, Lyon 1858.

Beginnings

  • Marie-Louise Gondal: Les origines des Sœurs de Saint-Joseph au XVIIe siècle. Histoire oubliée d'une fondation Saint-Flour - Le Puy (1641–1650–1661) . Paris, Cerf, Paris 2000.
  • Marta Maria Pesce: Jean-Pierre Médaille (1610–1669). Sulle tracce di un fondatore “nascosto”. Primalpe. Cuneo 2016.
  • Marguerite Vacher: Des "régulières" dans le siècle. Les sœurs de Saint-Joseph du Père Médaille aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles . Adosa, Clermont-Ferrand 1991.

Superiors

  • Jean-Joseph Rivaux: Histoire de la révérende mère du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus (née Tezenas Du Montcel), supérieure générale de la congrégation des soeurs de Saint-Joseph de Lyon, précédée d'une notice sur les origines de cette congrégation et sur la RM Saint-Jean, nee Fontbonne . Baratier et Dardelet, Grenoble, and Briday, Lyon 1878.
  • Jean-Joseph Rivaux: Vie de la révérende mère Saint-Jean, née Jeanne Fontbonne, fondatrice et première supérieure générale de la congrégation des sœurs de Saint-Joseph de Lyon . Grenoble, Baratier et Dardelet, Grenoble 1885.
    • Life of Rev. Mother St. John Fontbonne, foundress and first superior-general of the congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Lyons . Sisters of St. Joseph (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.), New York 1887.
  • Mère Saint Jean Fontbonne, fondatrice de la congrégation de Saint-Joseph de Lyon, restauratrice de l'institut . Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 1929.
    • Mary Leonilla: Mother Saint John Fontbonne. Foundress of the congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Lyons . Kennedy, New York 1936.
  • Mary Dolorosa Mannix: The living fountain. The story of Mother St. John Fontbonne. Wetzel Pub. Co., Los Angeles 1951.
  • Maria Saravia: In spirit and in truth. Mother Saint John Fontbonne . Hallowell Printing Co., 2007.

Overall presentation

  • La congrégation de Saint Joseph de Lyon . Letouzey et Ané, Paris 1927.
  • Albert Bois: Les Soeurs de Saint-Joseph. Les Filles du petit dessein, de 1648 à 1949 . Éditions et imprimeries du Sud-Est, Lyon 1950.

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