Religious congregation founded at Paris, France in 1860 by Pere Delaplace and Marie Jeanne Moisan for the Christian education of children and the visitation and care of the sick in hospitals and in their own homes. The congregation manages schools, hospitals, orphanages, homes for the aged, kinder gartens, dispensaries, and houses of retreat for women in France, Canada, and the United States. The mother-house is at Paris.
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