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The Congregation of Our Lady of Fidelity (French: Congrégation Notre-Dame de Fidelité) is a Catholic religious congregation of women founded in France in 1831 by Henriette Le Forestier d'Osseville, known in religion as Mother Saint Mary, which has as its primary goal the education of young women, especially orphans. They currently serve ...
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A painting of cornette-wearing Daughters of Charity by Karol Tichy, depicting a funeral in an orphanage run by the sisters (National Museum in Warsaw).. The Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (Latin: Societas Filiarum Caritatis a Sancto Vincentio de Paulo; abbreviated DC), commonly called the Daughters of Charity or Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, is a ...
Simple adoption (French: adoption simple) is a type of adoption which allows some of the legal bonds between an adopted child and his or her birth family to remain. It is formalized under articles 343 and following of the French Civil Code. Simple adoption is less restrictive in its requirements and less radical in effects than plenary adoption.
While superior at Tours, Mary Euphrasia formed a contemplative nuns group, named the Magdalen Sisters (based in a devotion to Mary Magdalene's conversion), now known as the Contemplative Communities of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, for penitent women who wished to live a cloistered life, but were ineligible to become Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. [7]
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In 1633, Vincent de Paul, a French priest and Louise de Marillac, a widow, established the Company of the Daughters of Charity as a group of women dedicated to serving the "poorest of the poor". They set up soup kitchens, organized community hospitals, established schools and homes for orphaned children, offered job training, taught the young ...
The orphanage was funded through Vernet's mother's savings, donations from friends, the La Bellevilloise cooperative, and journal subscriptions. [1] Vernet was associated with French libertarian (anarchist) social circles by the early 1900s. She wrote for libertarian journals and spoke on women's rights, free love, and against Neomalthusianism.