Enciclopedia Cattolica

CONGREGAZIONE DEI SACRI CUORI

Congregation of the Sacred Hearts

Volume IV · p. 181 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

CONGREGAZIONE DEI SACRI CUORI. - Istituito femminile sorto a Poitiers nel 1797 per opera del sac. Pietro Coudrin e della contessa Enrichetta Aymer de la Chevalerie.
CONGREGAZIONE DEI SACRI CUORI. - Istituito femminile sorto a Poitiers nel 1797 per opera del sac. Pietro Coudrin e della contessa Enrichetta Aymer de la Chevalerie.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. — A female institute founded in Poitiers in 1797 by Fr. Pierre Coudrin and Countess Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie.

It has both contemplative and active purposes, with perpetual adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament. It also runs schools for the education of youth, homes and places of care for the sick. The institute has 56 houses spread across Europe, America, and Australia, with over 1,600 sisters.

BIBL.: E. Lemoine, *La très rêve, mère Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie*, Paris 1912. Silverio Mattei