Society of the Sacred Heart


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(R.C. Ch.) a religious order of women, founded in France in 1800, and approved in 1826. It was introduced into America in 1817. The members of the order devote themselves to the higher branches of female education.

See also: Sacred

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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As mentioned, from the late 1820s the traditional convent boarding schools were joined by colleges of education set up by certain religious orders from France devoted primarily to the education of young girls of the civilian aristocracy: the society of the Sacred Heart of Madeleine-Sophie Barat, the Sisters of St.
Helen Ralston was educated in convent schools, and eventually entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1957 in Albany, NY, and made her final profession in Rome in 1965.
The Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus had been hit by a shortage of personnel.
* Left Bank Books, History Museum & Society of the Sacred Heart present Cokie Roberts discussing her book Founding Mothers: The Women that Raised the Nation, Missouri History Museum Grand Hall, 7 p.m.
This set of questions about cultural transfer and inter-cultural contact are approached by using archive material drawn from eight Francophone congregations, in particular the Faithful Companions of Jesus and the Society of the Sacred Heart, who were amongst the earliest to arrive in England.
27 at Oakwood, the Society of the Sacred Heart's elder care center in Atherton, Calif., at 85.
DESCRIPTION: The Society of the Sacred Heart is made up of 2,600 women in 41 countries.
I was 23 years old when I joined the Society of the Sacred Heart. I got my vocation on a dance floor where I was a belle of the ball.
This was the founding the Society of the Sacred Heart, now a worldwide religious order.
Kathleen Conan, provincial superior of the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States Province, was elected superior general of the international Society of the Sacred Heart in Lima, Peru.
I didn't know that any of this had anything to do with the spirituality of my congregation, the Society of the Sacred Heart, until I heard a former superior general describe our spirituality as "the spirituality of the pierced heart." What I understood that to mean is that we take the suffering of the world into our hearts because we share in the pierced heart of Christ.
Most recently, Pam has served as the director of public relations and communications with the Society of the Sacred Heart, St.
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