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Daughters of Jesus
The Catholic Encyclopedia
or Founded at Kermaria, in the Diocese of Vannes, France, in 1834, for the care of the sick poor, and the education of girls. The congregation received government authorization 31 October, 1842. In 1893 a provincial house for Canada was founded at Three Rivers. The sisters in Canada number (1910) 267, choir and lay, in charge of 25 schools, chiefly model and elementary, in addition to 9 boarding schools, a hospital, and an orphanage; they also have the domestic care of 2 religious houses. In the United States they conduct an academy and hospital at Lewiston, Montana, and the school connected with the French parish at Waltham, Massachusetts. The congregation has over 200 convents throughout the world.
Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen (Paderborn, 1908); Le Canada ecclesiastique (1910).
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Daughters of Jesus'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/d/daughters-of-jesus.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
