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The Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (French: Religieuses du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus; Latin: Religiosae Sanctissimi Cordis Jesu), abbreviated RSCJ, is a Catholic centralized religious institute of consecrated life of pontifical right for women established in France by Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800.
It is the oldest Anglican devotional society. In its present form it resulted from the amalgamation on 26 February 1867, of two older societies: the Society of the Blessed Sacrament, founded in 1860, and the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, founded in 1862 by Thomas Thellusson Carter during the Oxford Movement in the Church of England.
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, Connecticut; Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York City, New York; Convent of the Sacred Heart (aka 'Seminary' & 'Academy' of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart), St. Joseph, Missouri 1855–1960; Colegio del Sagrado Corazón, Puerto Rico; Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
The Society of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (Latin: Societas Sodalium Sancti Joseph a Sacra Corde), also known as the Josephites, is a society of apostolic life of pontifical right for men headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Members work specifically among African Americans and take the postnominals SSJ.
St. Joseph's Seminary is a former Catholic major seminary and current house of formation in Washington, D.C. for the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart (also known as the Josephites), a Catholic society of apostolic life that serves African Americans.
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St. Augustine Seminary, originally named Sacred Heart College, was a Black Catholic seminary run by the Society of the Divine Word in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.Founded in 1920 in Greenville at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, it relocated in 1923 was the first seminary intended to educate African Americans for the priesthood.
The society has undertaken the restoration of a number of historic church buildings. The institute's rule of life is based generally on that of the secular canons . Its stated mission is the defence and propagation of the reign of Christ the King in all areas of human life, both private and social.