Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IX, 1952 Religious orders Women's orders and congregations

Poor Sisters of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration

POVERE SUORE DI SAN FRANCESCO DELL'ADORAZIONE PERPETUA

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Also known as: Poor Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration

POOR SISTERS OF SAINT FRANCIS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION. - Institute founded on 20 Dec. 1860 at Olpe (diocese of Paderborn), by Teresa Bonzel.

Within a decade it spread rapidly, but the laws of the Kulturkampf, in 1875, slowed its development in Germany, while it expanded vigorously in America, where 6 sisters settled in 1875, invited to Lafayette by the Ordinary of Fort Wayne. Besides daytime adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the sisters devote themselves to the care of the sick in hospitals and at home and to the education and instruction of poor boys and girls, in schools, orphanages, boarding schools, etc.

The Institute received the decree of praise on 13 Apr. 1897 and pontifical approval on 30 Jan. 1931. At present the sisters number 2,527, distributed in 202 houses and 4 provinces.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Archivio della S. Congr. dei Religiosi, P. 49.

Giulio Mandelli

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), coll. 1865–1866.

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Mandelli, Giulio. “Povere Suore di San Francesco Dell'Adorazione Perpetua.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, coll. 1865–1866. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/povere-suore-di-san-francesco-dell-adorazione-perpetua.

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Mandelli, Giulio. “Povere Suore di San Francesco Dell'Adorazione Perpetua.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 1865–1866. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/povere-suore-di-san-francesco-dell-adorazione-perpetua.

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  author    = {Mandelli, Giulio},
  title     = {Povere Suore di San Francesco Dell'Adorazione Perpetua},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {1865--1866},
  note      = {Cited by column},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/povere-suore-di-san-francesco-dell-adorazione-perpetua}
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