Religious of Jesus Mary
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The Religious of Jesus Mary (Religieuses de Jésus-Marie) is a Roman Catholic religious congregation for education. It was founded at Lyon, France, in October, 1818, by Claudine Thévenet[1], in religion, Mary of St. Ignatius (Marie Saint Ignace). She was canonized in 1993[2]; her feast day is February 3.
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The constitutions were approved by Pope Pius IX, 31 December, 1847. The object of this congregation was to give girls a Christian education conformable to their social position. For this purpose the religious have boarding-schools and academies.
In France, before the expulsion of 1901, they were at Lyon, and at Le Puy, Rodez, and Remiremont. The mother-house was transferred to Rome in September, 1901.
In 1842 Lyons sent a colony to India, where twelve houses were set up, including ones at Bombay, Poona, Lahore, Simla, and Agra (see Convent of Jesus and Mary). In 1850 the first house in Spain was founded at Tarragona; then followed other foundations, at Valencia, Barcelona, Orihuela, S. Gervas, Alicante, and Murcia. In 1902 Spain sent a colony to found houses in Mexico City and at Merida, Yucatan.
The first house of the congregation in America was founded at St. Joseph, Levis, Canada, in 1858. In 1876 Sillery, Quebec became the provincial house of America. Canada has four other houses, at St-Gervais, St-Michel, Trois-Pistoles, and Beauceville. In 1876 several sisters left Sillery to open houses in the Unites States. The first foundation was that at Fall River, Massachusetts. The house at Manchester, New Hampshire, was founded in 1881; then, at Woonsocket, R.I., a boarding-school and two parochial schools. At Providence, Rhode Island, the religious set up a convent and two parochial schools. In 1902 several nuns left the mother-house in Rome, to found an establishment in New York.
[edit] References
This article incorporates text from the entry Religious of Jesus Mary in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
