Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph
The Franciscan Sisters of St. Josef ( Order abbreviation : FSJ ) are a Roman Catholic women's order with a motherhouse in Schweich on the Moselle and a generalate in Curitiba , Brazil. The sisters work mainly in nursing the sick and the elderly, but also run schools in their mission areas. They operate in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Honduras, Angola and Brazil. In Germany, the sisters are responsible for nursing homes in Bad Honnef - Aegidienberg , Unkel , Körperich , Speicher and Schweich.
history
The community was founded in 1867 by Alphonsa Kuborn . Alphonsa Kuborn was born in Mertert (Luxembourg) in 1830 and initially entered the congregation of the Hospital Sisters of St. Elisabeth in Luxemburg-Pfaffenthal . A few years later she was asked to found a new community in Schweich with some women working in the nursing sector, initially called Sisters of Mercy of the regulated 3rd Order of St. Francis of Assisi in Schweich . The rule of the order was approved in 1896. Due to the Kulturkampf , the small community had to relocate to the Netherlands in 1877 and founded the St. Joseph Monastery in Valkenburg aan de Geul there in 1883 . The provincial office for the German-Dutch province is still located there today. Since 1939 the community has been called “Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph". In 1984 the congregation was granted papal law. The Generalate was located at the founding site in Schweich until August 2011 and was then relocated to Curitiba in the Brazilian state of Paraná due to a lack of new members in Europe .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ordenskorrespondenz , 2011, Issue 3, p. 356
literature
- Gian Ackermans: KUBORN, Alphonsa. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 859-860.