Little Sisters of the Holy Family at Sherbrooke
The Little Sisters of the Holy Family of Sherbrooke ( French: Petites Sœurs de la Sainte-Famille de Sherbrooke ; order abbreviation PSSF ) are a religious community in the Roman Catholic Church that belongs to the Third Order of Francis of Assisi . The congregation was founded in 1874 by Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis (1840–1912).
history
Father Camille Lefebvre (1831–1895) ran a school and a college in 1864 in Memramcook , Canada . To support him he asked the nuns of the Marian Sisters of the Cross to take care of the facilities. The Canadian Marie-Léonie Paradis led the community from 1874, which took the name Little Sisters and placed itself under the protection of the Holy Family . In 1877 fourteen more sisters made their profession . The congregation was recognized on May 31, 1880, and on January 26, 1896, the sisters of Bishop Paul-Stanislas La Roque in the Archdiocese of Sherbrooke were recognized as a congregation under episcopal law . The sisters then built a new motherhouse in Sherbrooke, Quebec Province . The community's full name was now Little Sisters of the Holy Family of Sherbrooke .
organization
The main task of the sisters lies in the economic administration of seminaries and parishes . You take on the housekeeping of seminaries and monasteries . In the parishes they devote themselves to catechesis and evangelization . They have offices in Canada, Honduras , Italy and the United States . Her motherhouse is in Sherbrooke , from where the Superior General looks after around 412 sisters who work in 25 facilities.
See also
literature
- Ekkart Sauser : Paradis, Marie-Léonie. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 1118.