ANNECLE of the SACRED HEART OF JESUS. – A female religious institute founded in Madrid in 1877 by Raffaella Porras y Ayllon (v.), to make reparation for the offenses received by the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist. To this end, the institute especially fosters devotion to the Sacred Heart and accords the greatest solemnity to Eucharistic worship through perpetual adoration. It maintains free schools for children, retreat houses, Eucharistic and Marian congregations, circles, and religious instruction courses. It was approved by the Holy See in 1887 and today numbers over 2,000 sisters in 50 houses.
ANNECLE of the SACRED HEART OF JESUS. – A religious institute founded in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1921, to address the issue of mixed education for young people of both sexes. The sisters dedicate themselves to the instruction and formation of young women preparing for teaching, to make of them teachers imbued with the true Catholic spirit. Before Lithuania was incorporated into Russia, the institute bore excellent fruit to the full satisfaction of the local ecclesiastical authority. It had 5 houses with 100 sisters.
ANNECLE of the SACRED HEART OF JESUS IN AGONY under the protection of ST. JOSEPH. – An institute established in Imola in 1876 through the efforts of Lucia Noiret and settled in Bologna in 1897. It received the decree of praise in 1914 and was approved in 1935. The sisters dedicate themselves to teaching and the education of youth. They have 16 houses in Emilia and Romagna with approximately 150 sisters.
ANNECLE of the MOST HOLY SACRAMENT. – A religious institute founded in Paris in 1859 by Blessed Peter Julian Eymard and Marguerite Guillot; it was approved by the Holy See on 21 July 1871.
The essential purpose of the institute is Eucharistic worship, carried out through continuous adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament, performed in rotation by the sisters. The institute numbers 300 sisters in 15 houses.