Sisters of the Cenacle
The Sisters of the Cenacle (also: Sisters of Our Lady from the retreat into the Upper Room ) have been a Roman Catholic religious community since 1826 with the tasks of prayer, charity and spiritual care.
history
In view of the large number of pilgrims to the grave of Saint Jean François Régis , the local pastor Étienne Terme, in collaboration with Saint Thérèse Couderc, founded a house in Lalouvesc (in what is now the Ardèche department in France ) in 1826 to provide adequate accommodation and spiritual care for female pilgrims. This house they called first "Saint Regis" 20 years later "Cénacle" (German: Cenacle or Upper Room ) to the hall, in the noisy Acts I, 12, the Apostle to the mother of Jesus and with his brothers after the Ascension withdrew. The nurses who looked after themselves first called themselves “Soeurs de la Retraite”, playing with the two meanings of the word retraite as “retreat (into the Upper Room )” and as retraite spiritual “(inner) contemplation”, later “Soeurs de Notre-Dame de” la Retraite au Cénacle “(Latin: Sorores Dominae Nostrae a Recessu Caenaculi ), also Sœurs de Notre-Dame du Cénacle or simply Le Cénacle (both for the religious order and for the monastery).
The sisters, recognized by the local bishop in 1836, received the papal decree of recognition in 1863 and final recognition in 1870. The constitutions were approved in 1886, new constitutions in 1983. The Congregation reached Lyon in 1842 , Paris and the rest of France in 1850 , Rome, Turin and Milan in 1881 and 1882, England in 1888, New York in 1892 and the rest of the United States States, 1945 to Brazil, 1948 to Madagascar, 1953 to New Zealand, 1967 to the Philippines, 1980 to Australia and 1990 to Ghana. Today the mother house is in Rome. The congregation, which is not represented in German-speaking countries, has around 500 members worldwide.
Superior until 1926
- 1826–1837: Thérèse Couderc
- 1838–1839: Judith de Lavilleurnoy (* 1797 Thérèse Judith de Baudre, widow since 1835)
- 1839–1852: Charlotte Contenet († 1852)
- 1852–1877: Françoise Antoinette de Larochenégly (* 1804; † 1900),
- 1877–1926: Marie-Aimée Lautier (* 1835)
literature
- Ghislaine Côté: Le Cénacle. Fondements Christologiques et Spiritualité . Ed. Beauchesne, Paris 1991 (Google Books, Repères chronologiques, pp. 423-425).
- Georges Longhaye: La Société de Notre-Dame du Cénacle. Origines et fondateurs . Retaux, Paris 1898