Chanoinesses Hospitalières de Saint-Augustin

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The Chanoinesses Hospitalières de Saint-Augustin are a Roman Catholic women's order that was located in the border area between France , Belgium and the Netherlands . It was an amalgamation of several orders with very similar orientations.

The Hospitalières de Saint-Nicolas are an order whose sisters are mentioned as early as 1266 in the Hospital of Saint-Nicolas . In 1319 they received new constitutions from the Bishop of Cambrai , which were revised again in 1618 . In 1928 the community of the Hospitalières de Saint-Nicolas consisted of 23 sisters in four houses. On March 7, 1928, the community aggregated to form the Augustinian order .

After first approaches to the Congregation of the Sœurs Hospitalières de Ath in 1939, the Holy See appointed a novice master for both communities in 1942. In the same year the two communities united to form a federation of diocesan law, the first superior general of which transferred the generalate and novitiate to Mignault . In 1947 the community received the status of a congregation under papal law .

A proper merger, in which the Hospitalières de Lessines were also involved, does not seem to have come about until 1950. But it was obvious that insurmountable rifts soon arose within the congregation, so that in 1962 it finally broke up.

While the community in Enghien (Edingen) merged with the Franciscanessen Penetentien van Opbrakel ( Franciscan Sisters ), the Lessines sisters joined the Servites de Marie de Jolimont and the Ath sisters joined the Augustines de l'Immaculée-Conception de Saint-Amand in France.