Enciclopedia Cattolica

SOCIETÀ DI MARIA RIPARATRICE

Society of Mary Reparatrix

Volume XI · p. 523 · 1953

English translation · Testo originale italiano

SOCIETÀ DI MARIA RIPARATRICE. - Istituto religioso fondato a Parij nel 1855 dalla serva di Dio Maria di Gesù (Emilia d'Oultremont) sotto la guida del gesuita p. Adolfo Petit.
SOCIETÀ DI MARIA RIPARATRICE. - Istituto religioso fondato a Parij nel 1855 dalla serva di Dio Maria di Gesù (Emilia d'Oultremont) sotto la guida del gesuita p. Adolfo Petit.

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

On June 24, 1864, the decree of praise was granted, and on March 10, 1873, the decree of approval of the Institute and its Constitutions. The purpose of the Society is reparation: to repair in souls and for souls that offend the Lord. The religious combine contemplative life with active life, and in their chapels the Most Blessed Sacrament is exposed during the day. In missionary places, they also run elementary schools, orphanages, dispensaries, etc. In Estebbe (Uganda), they dedicate themselves to the formation of indigenous sisters and have established the Congregation of the African Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, canonically erected in 1948. Currently, the Society is present in many countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America with over 2,500 sisters in 80 houses.

BIBL.: V. DELAPORTE, VICTOR, La Société de Marie Riparatrice, Paris 1901; S. Rit. Congr., Inquisitio Sect. Historicae in Causa S. D. Mariae a Jesu d'Oultremont, Vatican City 1940.