Capuchin Terziarinnen of the Holy Family

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Bishop Luis Amigó y Ferrer OFMCap

The Capuchin Terziarinnen of the Holy Family ( abbreviations : TC or HTC ) are a female congregation under papal law in the Roman Catholic Church . Like the male counterpart of the community, the Congregation of the Amigonians (Capuchin Terciars) founded four years later, the sisters belong to the Franciscan religious family .

The religious order was founded on May 11, 1885 by the Capuchin Luis Amigó y Ferrer OFMCap, in Benaguacil near Valencia in Spain and is active in social and charitable causes. The congregation has around 1400 sisters who are represented on four continents ( Africa , America , Asia and Europe ). The human and geographic focus of the community has shifted from Spain to Latin America (especially Colombia and Central America ) over the past 40 years . Your apostolic mission includes the care of the sick and the elderly , the Christian upbringing of disadvantaged children and young people, social work with vulnerable families and pastoral work in pastoral care and missions , especially in poor areas. The Generalate has its seat in Rome . The current Superior General is Sister Yolanda Arriaga Ruballos from Guatemala . The sister community has also been represented in Germany since 1961 with branches in Duisburg and Cologne . In the German-speaking area, there was also a branch in Lucerne ( Switzerland ) for a long time , which was active in the pastoral care of migrants and has since been abandoned. The sisters, who have lived in Brussels since the 1960s, are also active in the pastoral care of migrants . The sisters have also been working in Wroclaw since 1992 and in Slovakia since 1995 (with a branch in Zvolen since 1998 ).

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  • Lázaro Iriarte: Historia de la Congregación Terciarias Capuchinas. Edited by the General Curia, Vatican Polyglot Printing House, Rome 1985.