Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Annonciades or Annuntiatinnen (from French: Annonciades, Latin: Ordo de Annuntiatione Beatae Mariae Virginis, religious symbol: OAnnM ) are a contemplative Roman Catholic women religious, who in Joan of France, Duchess of Berry and daughter of Louis XI, 1501. Bourges was founded. Pope Alexander VI. approved the Rule on February 12, 1502 the bull Ea quae.

The sisters wear a gray blue tunic with a red scapular and white rope, a white Hülltuch and a black veil. You are active in social services and in the vestments embroidery. Spiritually they are trying to imitate the ten virtues of Mary. Therefore, her second name of the ten virtues of the Virgin Mary.

The General House today lies in Saint- Doulchard in the department of Cher, Centre region, in central France, in the direct neighborhood of Bourges, where the order was founded. A further six offices in France and Belgium.