Sister’s funeral Mass and burial followed on Friday, August 7, 2020. In 1901 the motherhouse was transferred to Baden, Pennsylvania. In 1876 the Sisters of St. Joseph of Rome, founded from Turin in 1839, were annexed to the Chambery branch; the province now (1910) comprises 15 houses, mainly educational institutions. Although I had long known the Sisters of St. Joseph, I was only aware of their teaching ministry, and consequently, I chose to pursue my religious vocation with a congregation dedicated to serving the poor. The constitutions, while establishing on a solid basis the idea of a general government, allow no small share of local initiative and care-fully provide for local needs. Among the latter was Mother St. John Fontbonne, who in her notebook records the names of four Sisters of St. Joseph imprisoned with her at St-Didier, five others in the dungeon of Feurs, and twenty in Clermont and other parts of France. In 1885 the Springfield mission was constituted the motherhouse of an independent diocesan congregation. In the school the children are taught by the improved methods of raised letters and the point system, while the older inmates are employed in various branches of industry. He was admitted into the Society in 1640, became noted as a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy before entering upon his career as a preacher, in which he distinguished himself by his great oratorical power, but most especially by his marvellous influence over souls. Several missions were opened in various parts of the diocese, and in 1888 a hospital was established at London, to which was attached a training school for nurses. The Sisters of St. Joseph, also known as the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph and abbreviated C.S.J. During the Civil War, detachments of sisters nursed the sick soldiers in Camp Curtin and the Church Hospital, Harrisburg; later, under Surgeon General Smith, they had more active duty in the floating hospitals which received the wounded from the southern battle-fields. During the Civil War the hospital was rented by the Government and the sisters enrolled in government service. We value their living culture and spirituality. The habit is black, with a scapular of the same color, a black veil and white linen kerchief, domino and forehead band, a leathern cincture, and a five decade rosary beads. Several sisters were sent, and a novitiate was opened at Rutland, October 15, 1876. If you need assistance logging in, please contact Jenny Beatrice at 314-678-0304 or [email protected] Members Sisters. Get Involved for information about volunteering and internship opportunities in Los Angeles. 2,085 people follow this. Detroit.—In 1889 Sisters of St. Joseph from the Diocese of Ogdensburg established a new congregation at Kalamazoo, Michigan. The province of Los Angeles comprises the houses of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Dioceses of Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. The tide of anarchy and revolution had wrought awful havoc in France, and the education of youth, especially the children of the working classes, was the special work devolving on the Sisters of St. Joseph. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: The Saint Joseph's Senior Home Assisted Living and Nursing Center has been operated by the Little Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception since 1981. The motherhouse of the Florida missions is at St. Augustine. In England the sisters have one house at Stafford, where there is a novitiate for the English-speaking subjects; there is a high-class day-school attached to the convent. The works of charity, the care of the sick in hospitals, of the aged and orphans, and the visitation of the sick in their homes, were also carried on as prior to the Revolution. Since that time the name of the Diocese of Kansas City has been changed to its original name: Diocese of Leavenworth. The accession of other members from the motherhouse enabled the community to take charge of three other schools in the city attached to French parishes. At the request of the Congregation of Propaganda, and with the approval of the Bishop of Springfield, five sisters were sent, in 1885, to Lee, Massachusetts, for work in the parochial schools. In 1804 Pius VII passed through Seurre, after crowning Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor in Paris, and received Mother Javouey with three of her community and blessed them. Sisters of St. Joseph of St-Vallier.—In 1683, at the request of Msgr. The vicar-general, the Rev. Toronto.—The motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph at Toronto was established from Le Puy, France, in 1851. The sisters have about 1600 children under their care, including 200 orphans. These obstacles seemed but to increase the zeal of the sisters, and by degrees postulants were received, parochial schools and asylums opened, and new works begun in various parts of the diocese. During the reign of terror, several Sisters of St. Joseph died for the Faith, and several others escaped the guillotine only by the fall of Robespierre. The congregation, which now numbers about 75 members, has charge of several parish schools, the Immaculate Heart Academy at Watertown, which is the motherhouse, an orphanage, and a school for boys, having about 1100 children under its care. Rochester.—In 1864 four Sisters of St. Joseph from Buffalo opened an asylum for orphan boys at Rochester. He also prescribed as their religious dress a black habit and veil, a black cincture on which a large rosary is worn, a band of white linen across the forehead, and a white linen coif fastened under the chin. The sisters have under their care 5000 children, not including 470 orphans and deaf mutes and 600 inmates of their various homes. The congregation, which now (1910) numbers 285 members, also has charge of 28 parochial schools in the diocese, 3 orphan asylums, a working boys’ home, an infants’ asylum, and a home for women and working girls. The province of St. Paul includes the houses in the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Dioceses of Winona and Far-go, North Dakota. Later an orphan asylum, a hospital, and a home for the aged were erected in the city of Erie. They now number 21, in charge of 3 schools, with an attendance of 225. In nearly all the mission houses are evening classes for adults to whom the sisters give religious instruction. Sisters of Saint Joseph are called to stand in solidarity with and respond to the cries of the First People of lands in which they live. The sisters also visit the poor. Canada.—Hamilton.—In 1852 five sisters from the 1 motherhouse at Toronto established a foundation at Hamilton, where they at once opened an orphanage and began their work in the parochial schools of the city. The term of postulantship extends from three to six months, the term of novitiate two years, after which annual vows are taken for a period of five years, when perpetual vows are taken. They live under the rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, and their particular object is the education of the young in Catholic schools. The novitiate was transferred, in 1897, to Nazareth, a hamlet founded by the sisters on a four-hundred-acre farm. John Loughlin, first Bishop of Brooklyn, applied to the motherhouse at Philadelphia for sisters, and two religious were named for the new mission, joined during the same year by a sister from Buffalo. The sisters now number about 50, in charge of a hospital, an academy, and 6 model elementary schools. The community increased in numbers and soon branched out, doing parochial school work throughout the diocese. Some sisters reside at Mt. As the new community grew in numbers, it also devoted its attention to the education of youth. 1.9K likes. or S.S.J., is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women founded in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, in 1650. The entire generalate comprises 1670 members. Most of the young men who have risen to parliamentary fame owe their early education to these sisters. The place selected for this object was in St. Peter’s Parish, Jersey City, in charge of the Jesuit fathers, where the sisters met with a true friend and supporter in the saintly Father McAtee, S.J. St Joseph is our model and inspiration. Later on other foundations were made in British Columbia (Diocese of New Westminster), namely a hospital at Rossland, another at Greenwood, and a day and boarding school at Nelson. Here there was a large building erected for the benefit of girls, where they could spend their summer holidays. The Brazilian province, founded in 1859, has several flourishing academies, besides day-schools for the upper classes, schools for negroes, hospitals, orphanages and foundling asylums, and one home for lepers. The houses in the West form one province, which has its own novitiate. The rule was therefore revised to meet the requirements of a generalate, and papal approbation was granted in 1874 by rescript of Pius IX. TEMPLE-RASTON: This was a complete departure from the St. Joseph's, the St. Joe's, that everyone knew. In some the orphanages are aided or wholly supported by the Government. In regard to the spirit by which the sisters were to be animated, Bishop de Maupas writes: “As I have found in the Visitation Order a sort of blessed predilection for the exact observance of the holiest laws of humility and charity, I have decided to institute the Congregation of St. Joseph on the same model, and in the same spirit, as the Sisters of the Visitation before they adopted enclosure.” The constitutions which Father Medaille wrote for the sisters are borrowed from the rules of St. Ignatius, the saintly founder adding observations from his own experience. The accession of new members enabled the sisters to meet the increasing demands made upon them, and they now number 175, in charge of 23 schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Dioceses of Pittsburg, Cleveland, and Columbus, with an attendance of 6075; they also conduct a hospital and 2 boarding-schools. The superior general and four general councillors, elected every six years by the whole congregation, form the general governing body, assisted by a superior provincial and four provincial councillors in each province. Everywhere remedies are given to the sick natives, and the work of infant baptism of natives is carried on. In 1809 Mother Javouhey made her profession, after nine years’ preparation, and, having received the habit, was appointed superior-general of the congregation. The community at present numbers 65 professed sisters, 6 novices, and 5 postulants. The congregation received the approval of the Holy See, March 31, 1862. They have over 1000 children under their care. Consequently many new missions, in the remotest parts of the United States, have been recently opened. The administrative body is composed of a superior general and five councillors elected for six years. In 1890 the approval of Pope Leo XIII was obtained for the rules of the congregation. Two years later one of these sisters was brought to Buffalo by Bishop Timon to assume charge of Le Couteulx St. Mary’s Institution for the instruction of deaf mutes, which had lately been established. From Watertown as a center missions were opened in other parts of the diocese. 183 check-ins. While waiting for their home, they received a call from Cahokia, Illinois, where a zealous Vincentian missionary desired the help of the sisters in his labors among the French and Creole population of that section. Thirty-one of the sisters perished in the terrible catastrophe at Martinique, in 1902, when the town of St-Pierre was wrecked by a volcanic eruption. Bourget) had been obtained, the institute was founded on April 26—the feast of the Patronage of St. Joseph—1857, by the Sulpician father, Antoine Mercier. © 2021 Trustees of the Sisters of Saint Joseph ABN 33 293 441 659. Cleveland.—The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Diocese of Cleveland are chiefly engaged in the parochial schools. In 1828 and again in 1853, Bishop Devie obtained the approval of the French Government for the new congregation. She died, however, four years later. The sisters number about 250, under the provincial house at Itu. After the war and the reorganization of the hospital on its present lines, the sisters extended their activities to various parts of the diocese; they now number over 100, in charge of 3 hospitals, 12 schools and academies, and 2 orphan asylums, with about 1700 children under their care. In all these missions the primary, secondary, and intermediate schools are under the Government. The bishop invited the aspirants to assemble at Le Puy where shortly afterwards he placed them in charge of the orphan asylum for girls. By 1865 the number of members had reached 1700, and the congregation was established throughout France, the principal academies being at Bourg, Paris, Boulogne-sur-Seine, and Marseilles. In Rome itself the sisters have an academy, with 100 pupils, 2 day-schools, and one poor school. Jean-Paul Medaille of the Society of Jesus (b. at Carcassonne, January 29, 1618; d. at Auch, May 15, 1689). The sisters teach in the parish elementary schools at Nottingham and Hanwell, and have a middle-class school attached to each convent. They were followed, two years later, by seven sisters for Webster, and in 1883 by twelve more for the cathedral parish, Springfield. Sisters of Saint Joseph are called to stand in solidarity with and respond to the cries of the First People of lands in which they live. Where-ever obedience directed, thither the missionaries hastened, till representatives of the community might be counted in nearly every country in Europe, on the distant shores of Asia, and in the fastnesses of Africa. In 1905 they were placed over a model school in the city of Quebec, where they opened a novitiate, the first reception taking place the following year. Shortly afterwards they were given charge of several parochial schools, and thus entered on what was to be their chief work in the coming years. (d. 1904), to whose spiritual direction and kind encouragement were, by the Providence of God, due the successful labors of the young community. In March, 1895, the constitutions were submitted to the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda by the founder, and in the September following the Decree “Lauda” was obtained. The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart of the Diocese of Bathurst, who have their own constitutions, number 250 in 54 houses. The community now (1910) numbers 200 sisters, in 14 houses, in charge of an academy, 3 hospitals, 2 orphanages, a home for the aged, and 10 separate schools, in the Dioceses of Peterborough and Sault Ste-Marie. Other young women joined the little household, all of whom Mother St. John zealously trained according to the life and rules of the first Sisters of St. Joseph. The sisters now number about 105, in charge of 6 academies, 14 day-schools, and 1 orphanage. Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet 6400 Minnesota Avenue St. Louis, MO 63111 Phone: 314-481-8800 Fax: 314-481-2366. At the time the sisters arrived at St. Louis, this humble house was occupied by the Sisters of Charity, who there cared for a few orphans soon after transferred to a new building. The sisters number 27. They were formed in 1893 by a group of Mill Hill priests working with newly-freed people emancipated during the American Civil War. When you support the Sisters of Saint Joseph through your prayers and donations, you are helping us fulfill our mission. The total number of children under the care of the sisters is 1700. The community, now (1910) numbering over 600 members, is represented in over 50 parishes of the diocese, in which the sisters preside over 8 academies, 50 parochial schools, 3 orphan asylums, a home for women, and 2 hospitals, having under their care 11,000 children, not including 1300 orphans. The congregation has had its martyrs, three during the persecution in Dauphine, for refusing to take the civil oath, and two in another persecution in Haute-Loire. On October 15, 1650, he addressed them as a religious community, placed them under the protection of St. Joseph, and ordered that they should be called the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph. The curriculum of their boarding-school at Chicopee embraces a normal course. The congregation now numbers 240, in charge of 3 academies, 2 hospitals, and 26 schools, in the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Dioceses of Marquette, Rockford, Kansas City, Omaha, Lincoln, and Concordia. Missionaries without resources and poor seminarians are special objects of the charitable attentions of this community. This might have seemed an impossible task but these women succeeded at it because they […] In 1889 they took charge of the school at Windsor Locks in the Diocese of Hartford, from which, in 1908, they were recalled to the Springfield diocese. The house, a small log cabin, which was to be the central or motherhouse of the future congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, was located at Carondelet, a small town six miles south of St. Louis. After the blessing of the bishop of the diocese (Msgr. Education Ministries; SSJ Earth Center; Saint Joseph Villa; Saint Joseph by-the-Sea Retreat House; Saint Mary by-the-Sea Retreat House; SSJ Welcome Center; SSJ Neighborhood Center; Subsidized Senior Residences; Social Justice. Bruchesi, Archbishop of Montreal, on September 20, 1897. SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH OF THE APPARITION, with motherhouse at Marseilles, founded at Gaillac, France, in 1830, by Mme Emilie de Vialard, for all kinds of charitable work. In the countries of Australia, Timor Leste, Peru and Brazil our Sisters work closely with the indigenous people. …nurturing potential, not dominating, walking beside, walking behind and when invited walking in front. The number of institutions now directed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Rochester has risen to 50 (1910): 5 private educational institutions, including a conservatory of music and art; 5 charitable institutions, including 3 orphan asylums, a hospital, and a home for the aged; and 40 parochial schools, including one high school. Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet. There are no lay sisters. They have 7000 children under their care. In this way too much centralization or peril to establishments working in accordance with local and special exigencies is fully guarded against. She applied in vain to the municipality for the restoration of the convent in which she had invested her dowry, and while awaiting the dawn of a brighter day, returned to her own home. The sisters undertake all kinds of charitable works, but they devote themselves especially to missionary labors and the education of the young. Joseph Rosati of St. Louis, Missouri, called at the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph at Lyons and asked Mother St. John Fontbonne, the superior, to send a colony of her daughters to America. They remained nearly two years, or until they had sufficiently mastered the English language, and fitted themselves for educational work awaiting them in Minnesota, where they have since opened three little mission houses. In 1907 a colony of these sisters opened a sanitarium at Del Norte, Colorado, in the Diocese of Denver. The community developed rapidly and soon spread through different parts of the diocese. The St. Louis province comprises the houses of the congregation in the Archdioceses of St. Louis and Chicago and the Dioceses of St. Joseph, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Peoria, Belleville, Alton, Denver, Marquette, Green Bay, Mobile, and Oklahoma. The Sisters of St. Joseph began with six women meeting in small kitchen in LePuy, France in 1650. Altogether 45,000 children are being educated by the sisters, and 70,000 poor and sick are cared for by them in their various institutions, which now (1910) number 385. The growing needs of this institution obliged the purchase of other property in the neighborhood, and now men, women, and children, are cared for in separate buildings. About See All. Thus, with the sanction of the Church came the unification of communities in various dioceses with the motherhouse at Carondelet, now in the city of St. Louis. The Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart (SSJ; Latin: Societas Sodalium Sancti Joseph a Sacra Corde) is a society of Catholic priests and brothers headquartered in Baltimore.The members are called Josephites and work specifically among African-Americans.. Following his example we are obedient to God as we serve God through our needy brothers and sisters in our religious communities, in the parishes, in society and in the global community. England.—In England the Sisters of St. Joseph devote themselves entirely to the work of teaching. We're a member of The U.S. Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph. Get Directions (310) 889-2100. In 1793 the convents and chapels of the sisters were confiscated, their annals were destroyed, and the religious were obliged to join communities in other countries, or to return to their respective homes in the world. In 2017, the members of the Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada, were the first group of religious communities in Canada to be designated a Blue Community which supports the right to safe drinking water without the need for bottled water. This includes 4203 sisters, 3032 associates and 25 agrégées of 16 Congregations throughout the United States. The sisters in France are still in charge of 3 hospitals. The rule is based on that of St. Augustine. The congregation gradually extended its activities to other parts of the diocese and now (1910) numbers 155 religious in charge of 2 hospitals, 2 houses of providence, and 12 schools, with an attendance of 2300. In Paris the famous hospital of Pasteur is under the care of forty sisters of this congregation. The sisters who now (1910) number 65, are in charge of an academy with an attendance of 100 and a school for boys. Sisters of St. Joseph of St-Vallier.—In 1683, at the request of Msgr. London.—The community of Sisters of St. Joseph at London was founded in 1868 by five sisters from the motherhouse at Toronto, who opened an orphan asylum the following year. In 1902 many French houses of the order were closed by the Government, in consequence of which a large number of sisters left for the foreign missions, chiefly Denmark and Russia. The sisters also instruct about 1000 children in Christian doctrine, and have the domestic care of the Hartford seminary and La Salette College in the same city. In the Diocese of Duluth they have 2 academies with an attendance of 220. The sisters are in constant demand for parochial schools and now (1910), with a membership of 300, conduct 19, with an attendance of about 9000. The number of religious, then 44, has now (1910) reached 155, in charge of 9 schools attended by 2100 pupils, 2 hospitals, with an annual average of 4200 patients. LITTLE DAUGHTERS OF ST. JOSEPH, established at 45 rue Notre-Dame de Lourdes, Montreal. The number of children under their care, including those in asylums, is nearly 26,000. In his work, he humbly listened to the voice of God and followed God's will. At the request of the Bishop of Perth, the sisters opened their first house in Western Australia at Fremantle, in 1854, where also they later established a novitiate. In 1901 this province opened a house at Brussels, where the sisters have a large public school under the Government. The work of the native novitiate is only in its infancy, and it is hoped that the native sisters will in the future be most useful with the native population. They teach Christian doctrine in many Sunday schools besides those attached to the schools under their charge. Simply e-mail us; we will do our best to put you in touch! Wheeling.—In 1853 seven sisters from Carondelet, Missouri, opened a private orphanage and hospital in Wheeling, and in 1856 took possession of a building chartered by the Assembly of Virginia for a hospital. They now have about 20 branch houses in the British colonies, in the principal towns in British Burma, Malta, Cyprus, at Beirut, and in Australia, in all of which places there are high schools, homes for the aged, and orphanages under the charge of the sisters. SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH OF PEACE.—This institution, founded in the year 1884 at Nottingham, England, by the Right Reverend E. G. Bagshawe [then bishop of that diocese, now (1910) Archbishop of Seleucia], with rules and constitutions under the authority of the Holy See, has for its special object the domestic and industrial training of girls (chiefly of the working class) with the view to promote peace and happiness in families, in union with and in imitation of the Holy Family of Nazareth. The provincial officers are appointed by the general officers every three years, as also are the local superiors of all the provinces. Its object is to aid the clergy in spiritual and temporal matters, both by the ministry of prayer and by discharging certain manual services, such as the manufacture of liturgical vestments and ornaments, and the manufacture, repair, and bleaching of the linen destined for the service of the altars of the various churches, etc. Navigate. The foundress was declared Venerable by the Holy See, February 11,1908. In 1892 the name of the Diocese of Leavenworth was changed to Kansas City, Kansas, and for the time being the Sisters of St. Joseph were diocesan sisters of the Diocese of Kansas City. In 1906 St. Theresa’s Convent was formally opened as the provincial house of the community, which was legally incorporated in the same year, and a novitiate was established. When, in 1863, the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Louis formed a generalate, approved later by the Holy See, the congregation of Philadelphia, by the wish of the bishop, preserved its autonomy. 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