Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition

The Federation of the Sisters of Charity of Mother Seton is a consortium of 13 Roman Catholic women's congregations in North America, all of which are in the tradition of St. Vincent de Paul and Anna Elizabeth Bayley Seton foundress ( 1774-1821 ), who was canonized in 1975. She founded in 1809 the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph 's ( SC) near Emmitsburg, Maryland, in the tradition of the Sisters of Christian Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in France. Other communities that live in 1672 also by the Vincentian rule, have combined with this order in a federation.

History

The foundation of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's was inspired by the Reverend Louis William Dubourg, who belonged to the Order of the Sulpician. Elizabeth Bayley Seton founded in 1808 in Baltimore with his help, a small boarding school for girls. Under the leadership of Sulpicians soon included several women together to form a sisterhood, which was formed after the model of the French Daughters of Christian Charity. Through a generous endowment the new community at Emmitsburg could build a house mother and settle under the name Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's. The community was founded on July 31, 1809 and received provisional statutes. In the monastery of St. Joseph in Emmitsburg a novitiate was established, the young religious grew rapidly. Mother Seton was elected the Head, even though she made a widow at the same time for their five children.

The monastic rule of the French sisters was adapted to American conditions carefully and recognized by John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1812.

The first apostolate of the Sisters was first the education of girls. The sisters founded in North America, the first free Catholic school for girls in Emmitsburg and the first Catholic hospital in St. Louis. Soon, next to schools and orphanages were founded. In 1830 and male orphans were to come. The Superior of the community wanted to stop this, because he thought it was problematic. From the conflicts that resulted from them was a spin-off show, thirty sisters left the community and founded the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York. Out of concern, there may be other divisions, and the Sulpicians of taking care of the sister community to relieve the Superior Louis- Regis Deluol drove the Association of American community ahead with the French community, but was initially unable to enforce it. In 1850 the union was nevertheless completed with the French Order. There are now two provinces were established in the USA, located in Emmitsburg and Saint Louis. Nevertheless, it came in the following years to other spin-offs, who settled in Cincinnati, inter alia, Halifax and Greensburg.

Reunification

Sister Isabel Toohey (1893-1979), Provincial Superior of the Eastern Province in the United States, visited during her tenure all congregations that had historically split from the Emmitsburger sisters, and asked her forgiveness for all the failed relationships and the emergence of conflicts that had led the various subsidiary monasteries. So it was possible that the different branches inserting together for a canonization of their foundress Elizabeth Seton. 1947 there was a first joint conference. After 1975, the canonization was reached, the Federation has also worked for other purposes, such as to facilitate their charitable work, to school of religious researchers and spiritual renewal. The Federation also seeks today to the publication of historical writings and cooperation with other branches of the Vincentian Family.

Founding members of the Federation

  • Sisters of Charity of New York ( founded in 1846 )
  • Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati (founded in 1852)
  • Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul ( founded in 1856 ) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth (founded in 1859) in Newark, New Jersey
  • Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill (founded in 1870) in Pittsburg

Other members of the Federation

  • Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception (SCIC ), founded in 1854 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (member since 1979)
  • Les Religieuses de Notre- Dame-du -Sacré - Coeur ( NDSC ), founded in 1871 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada, as a splinter group of the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception (Member since 1986)
  • Sisters of Charity of Nazareth ( SCN ), founded in 1812 in Nazareth, Kentucky (Member since 1991)
  • Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy of Charleston (OLM ), founded in 1829 in Charleston, South Carolina (Member since 1994)
  • Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL ), originally founded in 1851 from a mission of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, as the Sisters of Charity of Nashville, moved to Leavenworth in 1858 and renamed. (Member since 1995)
  • Vincentian Sisters of Charity of Pittsburgh ( VSC), founded in 1902 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as the new foundation of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul Sisters of Satu - Mare, Romania, in order to take care of immigrants from Eastern Europe ( member since 1989 )
  • Vincentian Sisters of Charity of Bedford (VSC ), founded in 1928 in Bedford, Ohio, in order to take care of the Slovak immigrants (Member since 1990)
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