MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF AARLE RIXTEL, SISTERS. - Although they were instituted in 1885 by Abbot Francesco Pfanner as an association of lay collaborators to assist the missionary work of the Fathers of Mariannhill, above all to provide for the education of girls, they nevertheless constituted themselves from the outset as a religious congregation, which received the blessing of Leo XIII on 5 February 1888 through the agency of the apostolic vicar of Natal, Msgr. Jolivet O.M.I.

The sisters, who until then had established themselves only in South Africa, founded a novitiate house at Helden-Panningen (Holland) in 1891. The Constitutions of the Institute were approved by the Holy See in 1903. In the same year the generalate house was built at Aarle-Rixtel (Holland). The Constitutions were adapted to the new CIC in 1918 and received new approval from the Holy See.

The M. of the P. S. number about 900 sisters in Holland, Germany, Denmark, South and East Africa, Rhodesia, the Belgian Congo and the United States.

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BIBL.: Des 25 jährige Bestehen der Kongregation der Missions Schwestern vom baitharen Blut, 1885-1910; Mutterhaus Hl. Blut, Aarle-Rixtel 1911; O. Heberling, Abt Pfanner, Rimlingen 1934.

Nicola Kowalsky

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Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood of Aarle-Rixtel

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