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Henriette Díaz DeLille, SSF (March 11, 1813 [1] – November 17, 1862) was a Louisiana Creole of color and Catholic religious sister from New Orleans.She founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as their first Mother Superior.
Mother Anna Maria Dengel, Medical Mission Sisters (S.C.M.M.), (16 March 1892 – 17 April 1980) was an Austrian physician, Religious Sister and missionary.She was the founder of the Medical Mission Sisters, which was among the first congregations of Religious Sisters authorized by the Roman Catholic Church to provide full medical care to the poor and needy in the overseas missions.
In March 1792, the Frenchman Pierre Coudrin was secretly ordained to the priesthood. The following May, Father Coudrin went into hiding in an attic of the granary of the Chateau d'Usseau and stayed confined there for six months to escape the government's persecution of the Catholic non-juring priests who refused to accept the Civil Constitution ...
Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Cabrini (birth name), July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church.
Mary Richardson Walker - one of the first six women over the Rockies. Mary Richardson Walker (April 1, 1811 – December 5, 1897) [1] [2] was an American missionary. She was the daughter of Joseph and Charlotte Richardson of West Baldwin, Maine. [3] Both parents were school teachers and valued education for all their children.
30 March 1957 in Boulder Creek, California, United States Married Layperson of the Diocese of Monterey Monterey [61] [62] [63] Heroic Virtues Introduction of Cause: 29 March 2012 Teresa Kearney (rel. name: Mary Kevin) 28 April 1875 in Knockenrahan, Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland 17 October 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Oregon missionaries were pioneers who settled in the Oregon Country of North America starting in the 1830s dedicated to bringing Christianity to local Native Americans. [1] There had been missionary efforts prior to this, such as those sponsored by the Northwest Company with missionaries from the Church of England starting in 1819. [2]
The pioneer White Fathers were affiliated to the Catholic Missionary Society of White Fathers which is also known as Religious Institute of the Missionaries of Africa. They arrived in Algiers in February 1874. [1] They started their journey to Equatorial Africa (victoria Nyanza region) on 15 November 1878.