MISSIONARIES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. – Institute founded on 5 January 1920 by Mgr. Alessandro
Le Roy, superior general of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, with the aim of cooperating in the missionary apostolate of the fathers of the same Institute in all the missions of Propaganda entrusted to them.
On 22 March 1923 the first candidates began their novitiate; on 5 October 1924 the first sisters took their vows, and during the same year they departed for Cameroon. The Constitutions of the Congregation were approved by decree of Propaganda dated 22 July 1929.
The principal fields of the sisters’ activity are western and southern Africa, Central America, and Martinique.
BIBL.: anon., Les sœurs missionnaires du St Esprit, Paris n.d.; C. Masseguin, A l'ombre des Patines. L'oeuvre familiale et missionnaire des Sœurs du St-Esprit, Paris 1942.