Sisters of the Holy Cross

The Sisters of the Holy Cross (CSC) headquartered on the same grounds as Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, is one of three Catholic congregations of religious sisters which trace their origins to the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross by the Blessed Father Basil Anthony-Marie Moreau, CSC, at Le Mans, France in 1837. The other two congregations of religious women in the tradition of the Holy Cross Family are the Marianites of Holy Cross (New Orleans, Louisiana) and the Sisters of Holy Cross (Montreal, Canada).

They are distinct from the Sisters of the Holy Cross Menzingen, a teaching congregation founded separately in Switzerland in 1844.

History

Main article: Basil Moreau

In 1837, Father Moreau, established the Congregation of Holy Cross. The congregation took its name from the neighborhood of Sainte Croix in Le Mans, where the 12th-century church, Notre Dame du Sainte Croix, was to become the mother church of the new foundation.[1] In 1841 Fr. Moreau founding a society of sisters within the Congregation.[2]

For a history of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, see the Sisters of the Holy Cross History.

Location

The Sisters of the Holy Cross are represented in the following countries (with their year of first arrival in parentheses):

Institutions

Ministry timeline

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Holy Cross: Blessed Basil Moreau, C.S.C.", University of Portland
  2. ↑ "Blessed Basil Anthony Moreau", Sisters of the Holy Cross

External links

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