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Soeurs de St. Paul de Chartres - Eneignantes, Hospitalieres, Missionnaires
English Title: Hospital teachers, missionaries, leaving for foreign missions
Poster ID: CL49364
Category: Miscellaneous/Religious
Designer: C. Caillere
Year: 1920s
Country: French
Approximate Size 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Very Good
Price: $300

The Oldest Missionary Order of Women La congregation des Sours de Saint Paul de Chartres est nee en 1696, dans un petit village de France : Levesville-la-Chenard pres de Chartres. ROME, Wednesday, September 12, 2007 (ZENIT.org) - The Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres, the oldest missionary order of women, created in 1696, now with 4000 sisters in Vietnam in 1000, showed 19,096 in "Churches of Asia, "the agency of the Paris Foreign Missions (EDA No. 214-01/02/1996, http://eglasie.mepasie.org). The pope was welcomed this morning's meeting their general chapter in Rome: the delegates were present at the hearing, place Saint-Pierre. "It's May 20, 1860 that the first two nuns of St. Paul de Chartres arrived in Saigon at the invitation of Archbishop Lefevre, Vicar Apostolic of Western Cochin. This was the first congregation of women to settle in Vietnam after the lovers of the cross which had been founded at the beginning of evangelization. Upon arrival, the Sisters of St. Paul were concerned to collect and care for orphans in what was still a box, located in a swamp near the palace of Archbishop Lefevre. The latter had also entrusted the care of a small hospital he had founded. Despite the extremely difficult conditions of their debut, the French nuns were quick to draw them to the Vietnamese postulants. The first came three months after their arrival. Six years later, a novitiate was established and recruitment has never been lacking in the congregation that is today one of the largest in Vietnam. Shortly after their arrival, their work with orphans and sick grew with great rapidity. Orphanages under their responsibility increased. The small hospital in the beginning was soon too small. and replaced by two hospitals, one located in Saigon, one in Hanoi, both called St. Paul. Until 1954 in Hanoi and Saigon in 1975 to the sisters in the administration and assured them their services dispensed. In addition, after some time, the congregation turned also to the education of Vietnamese youth. Large schools were founded in all major cities of Vietnam: St. Mary School and School of the Holy Family in Hanoi, the Joan of Arc School in Hue, the School of the Sacred Heart of Da Nang School St. Therese of Kontum, the Saint Paul School of Pleiku, the Saint Paul School of Saigon and many others.

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