Poor School Sisters of Our Lady

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Poor School Sisters of Our Lady ( Latin : Congregatio Pauperum Sororum Scholasticarum Dominae Nostrae, abbreviation : SSND , School Sisters of Notre Dame) is a congregation of school sisters in the Roman Catholic Church founded in Neunburg vorm Wald in 1833 . It is also known as the “Gerhardinger Sisters” .

history

Founding monastery in Neunburg vorm Wald

In Regensburg were the first of the Blessed Alix Le Clerc and St. Pierre Fourier founded in 1597 “ Congrégation Notre Dame - Choir Women of St. Augustine ”. They maintained a monastery school near Regensburg . When the convent school closed, a critical school situation began, as a result of which Karolina Gerhardinger and two other women were trained as teachers. The then cathedral pastor and later Bishop of Regensburg Georg Michael Wittmann was the initiator and mentor of Karolina Gerhardinger. He made her teaching at the Stadtamhof girls' school , which was now run as a parish school. After the sudden death of Bishop Wittmann, Karolina Gerhardinger felt obliged to continue the work she had started. In 1833 she began to organize her life according to the rules of the "Choir Women de Notre Dame" and founded the congregation of school sisters in the Neunburg vorm Wald convent. Although its roots go back a long way, the Congregation regards October 24, 1833 as the date of its creation. In 1865 they received the approbation of the constitution of the "Poor School Sisters of Our Lady" by Pope Pius IX. With Maria Theresia von Jesu (religious name of Karolina Gerhardinger) a heyday began for the congregation, it spread over 11 countries in Europe and America . After the founder's death there were more than 2500 school sisters who worked in elementary schools , orphanages, day care centers and kindergartens.

Since 1986, originally 678 sisters of the American convents took the Order of the so-called Nun Study ( Now Study ) part, a longitudinal study to the study of conditions of aging and possible causative factors of Alzheimer's disease , the David Snowdon first started at the University of Minnesota, then continued at the University of Kentucky .

organization

The sisters have worked as teachers and educators in Neunburg vorm Wald since 1833, in Munich-Au since 1839 and in the Angerkloster in Munich since 1843. Around 35 branches belong to the Bavarian province, as do the branch communities in Berlin, Romania, Westphalia and Sweden. In the main area of ​​Europe there are further provinces with Austria-Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

The congregation has 2744 sisters worldwide (as of December 31, 2015). The parent company has been in Rome since 1957 .

Religious life

The school sisters see themselves as the spiritual inheritance of St. Augustine . This Augustinian spirit also gave the rules of the order its basic features. They take the vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience .

Superior General

See also

Web links

Commons : Congregatio Pauperum Sororum Scholasticarum Dominae Nostrae  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: School Sisters of Notre Dame  - sources and full texts (English)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/educating-many-forms-school-sisters-notre-dame-committed-long-term-alzheimers-disease-study accessed October 25, 2019
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120731095130/https://www.healthstudies.umn.edu/nunstudy/school_sisters.jsp accessed October 25, 2019
  3. ^ Nostra Signora (Suore Scolastiche di) . In: Annuario Pontificio , 2017 edition, p. 1569.