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The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph was founded by Jean-Pierre Médaille (although older accounts attribute this to his brother, Jean Paul). Medaille sought to establish an ecclesiastically approved congregation of women who would profess simple vows, live in a small group, with no specific apostolates and would dress in a common garb of the women of their day.
The order is governed as a single congregation located in three regions: Sacred Heart Province in the United Kingdom includes Sisters and Associates living in England, Ireland, and Scotland. St. Joseph Province in the Eastern United States includes Sisters and Associates living in Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.
The Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille aka Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Bourg was a Roman Catholic congregation of women. Its forebear, the Congregation of Sisters of Saint Joseph was started in Le Puy, France by the Jesuit Jean Pierre Médaille and accepted by the bishop, Monsignor de Maupas, on October 15, 1650.
Locations of mother houses, groups, and institutions sponsored by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
In 1853, in response to the cholera epidemic, the sisters turned the school into the first site of St. Joseph's Hospital, which was also the state of Minnesota's first hospital. The growth of the St. Paul congregation began with the entrance of its first postulants, Ellen Ireland and her cousin Ellen Howard, in the summer of 1858.
The Servants of St. Joseph (Spanish: Siervas de San José, who use the postnominal initials SSJ) form an international congregation of religious sisters in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded by Saint Bonifacia Rodríguez-Castro on January 7, 1874, with the support and guidance of a Catalan Jesuit , Fr. Francesc Xavier Butinyà i Hospital ...
The congregation became known as the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny. Initially, the education of children and the care of the orphans was their primary work. Javouhey employed the Lancasterian method , by which abler students acted as teachers' assistants, and achieved good results that drew notice from the French government who asked for her ...
Saint Joseph Academy was established in 1890 by the Congregation of St. Joseph. [2] The Academy is owned and operated by the Congregation of St. Joseph, and it is advised by a board of directors representing religious, corporate and nonprofit professionals. The Academy is the only all-girls Catholic high school in the city of Cleveland. [2]