Daughters of Jesus

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The Daughters of Jesus (Filles de Jésus) is a Roman Catholic female religious congregation, founded at Kermaria, in the Diocese of Vannes, France, in 1834. Its purposes are the care of the sick poor, and the education of girls.

[edit] History

The congregation received government authorization 31 October, 1842. In 1893 a provincial house for Canada was founded at Trois-Rivières.

In the United States they conducted an academy and hospital at Lewiston, Montana, and the school connected with the French parish at Waltham, Massachusetts. The congregation has convents throughout the world.

[edit] References

• Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen (Paderborn, 1908);
• Le Canada ecclesiastique (1910)

[edit] External link

• Official Home page

This article incorporates text from the entry Daughters of Jesus in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.