This may explain the spare tombstone of Agnes of Hergenheim, one of the two foundresses of Unterlinden. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Charisms are bestowed by the Holy Spirit, who inspires founders and foundresses, and shapes Congregations with a subsequent spiritual heritage. ❋ Papabear (2008)
The spiritual intuitions of the founders and foundresses, especially of those who have significantly marked the path of religious life throughout the centuries, have always given great importance to obedience. ❋ Papabear (2008)
Indeed, the history of the Church is perhaps most beautifully portrayed through the history of her schools of spirituality, most of which stem from the saintly lives of founders and foundresses. ❋ Papabear (2008)
Towering figures, like Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and other founders and foundresses, with great tenacity and foresight, laid the foundations of what is today a remarkable network of parochial schools contributing to the spiritual well-being of the Church and the nation. ❋ Papabear (2008)
I think we do owe the original Sisters of St. Joseph a debt of gratitude, and the sister you described as well..it seems she was one who remained loyal to the foundresses' charism and thus, the charism of the order. ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)
My sister Paula of the Eucharist is from the Bettendorf Carmel as well as one of the foundresses of the Lake Elmo Carmel, she is still alive, though suffering greatly. ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)
Again, multiple paper wasps for instance, Polistes may found a nest together, and typically only the dominant foundress rears fertile offspring; the other foundresses are often, but not always, related to her. ❋ Unknown (2005)
When the dominant male at a manakin lek dies, one of the subordinate males who assisted him inherits his position; ditto for the subordinate foundresses at a wasp nest. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Gertrude and others, and the chosen line of foundresses of religious orders -- these too have ruled the borderland, and their influence, direct or indirect, has all been in the same direction, for pacification and not for strife, for high aspiration and heavenly-mindedness, for faith and hope and love and self-devotion, and all those things for want of which the world is sick to death. ❋ Janet Erskine Stuart (N/A)
Religious houses, foundresses of, 224; and manual labour, 98. ❋ Janet Erskine Stuart (N/A)
February, 1803, the two foundresses and their postulant, Catherine ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
"Order of Jesus and Mary" he had in contemplation, six of the foundresses left France within a few years, while the seventh remained only under protest. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
After seven years of rapid progress the four foundresses entered upon community life 2 Feb., ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Vossen were at school together at Aachen; they were the co-foundresses of the congregation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Two widows of Barcelona, Isabel Berti and Eulalie Peins, whose confessor was Blessed Bernard of Corbario, prior of the convent there, were the foundresses. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Great difficulties arose, and the attempt failed, principally through the resistance of the foundresses, who did not wish to abandon their original plan of itinerant nursing. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Thus the association which had justified such bright hopes was dissolved, and many of the newly admitted members joined the Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, while the foundresses left the novitiate which they had already entered. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The urgent need of Christian education among all classes of society in France at that time, led the foundresses to modify their original plan of teaching only the poor and to open schools for the children of the rich also. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
