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buildings of the Deaf -Mute Institution at Issen- berg (1913), 4 Sisters; housekeeping school, nursing

heim, which were vacated when the deaf-mutes home for sick Sisters, Telgte Maricnheim (1913),

were transferred to the care of the Sisters of the 20 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work school, nurs-

Holv Cross. In May, 1921, the direction of the ing home for the aged, Warendorf Franz H. (1916),

Orphanage of St. Francis at Douvaine, Upper Savoy, 5 Sisters; orphanage, needle-work school, cooking

was given to the Sisters of Divine Providence. The school, Sunday school, Werne (1912), 7 Sisters;

Sisters direct 314 primary public schools in Alsace lyceum, Wesel (1918), 17 Sisters.

and have about 44,000 children under instruction. At Steyl, in the Diocese of Roermond, Holland,

The congregation numbers 1,740 members. The re- St. Joseph's Convent, till now a German boarding

vision of the Code of Canon Law affects only minor school, has become the provincial mother-house for

details of the Constitutions. Holland, with the novitiate and a higher Dutch

HI. SoaETY OP Divine Pbovidencb (Friederichs- school establishment, Miilo school. The provincial

buijj, Germany; cf. C. E., V-62c).— Since 1909 the superior is Sister Vincentia (Oldemeyer). Other

activity of this congregation has extended to the foundations in the Diocese of Roermond are: nura-

foUowing recently established works: management ing home for the aged and kindergarten, at Helden

of the household of the workmen's home, Muenster Panningen; elementary schools, kindergarten, and

(1911), 6 Sisters; management of the household of needle-work school, Maasniel (1913); elementary

a boarding school, kindergarten, St. Joseph's House, schools (8-10 classes), kindergarten, needle-work

Muenster (1920), 3 Sisters; in Muenster and at school, Speckholzerheide (1910), 9 Sisters; elemen-

other places the infant schools have been chaneed tary schools, kindergarten, needle-work school,

into kindergartens, and to these have been added in Velden (1913), 4 Sisters. Recent foundations in

Muenster 3 shelters for children, 1 crib, and 2 cook- the Diocese of Hertogenbosch are : elementary

ing schools (1915), 76 Sisters; advanced school for schools, kindergarten, needle-work school, Bergharen

women, St. Mauritz (1920), 8 Sisters; kindergarten, (1910), 6 Sisters; coimtry housekeeping school, ele-

needle-work school, ambulant nursing, Aldenarde mentary schools, boarding house for gentlemen and

(1915), 6 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work school, ladies, needle-work school, nursing of the aged,

higher school for girls, school for cooking, Beckum kindergarten, Lierop (1911), 12 Sisters. In the

(1919), 11 Sisters; management of the household Archdiocese of Utrecht works recently undertaken

home, housekeeping school, Cleve (1919), 8 Sisters; Sisters; boarding house for ladies, Amheim. management of the household of St. Maurus, Coes- In brazil the provincial mother-house with feld (1918), 3 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work novitiate is the Convent of the Sacred Heart, at school, Dattein (1910), 6 Sisters; kindergarten, Florianopolis, where the Sisters also have a board- needle-work school, boarding house for ladies. Din- ing school and a higher school. The provincial slaken (1912), 5 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work superior is Sister Benvcnuta (Rohling). Works school, Duisburg Hochfeld (1911), 6 Sisters; Sunday undertaken by the Sisters in Brazil since 1909 are: school, ambulant nursing, Duisburg St. Peter; kin- elementary schools, needle-work school, ambulant dergarten, needle-work school, Emmerich (1920), 3 nursing, Santo Amaro (1910); elementary school. Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work school, cooking Faragua (1917), 3 Sisters; elementary school, school, Ennigerlok; kindergarten, needle-work needle-work school, kindergarten, Sao Jose (1913) : school, ambulant nursing, Erkenschwick (1913), 4 elementary school, ambulant nursing, Pelotas (1918), Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work school, work- 5 Sisters; elementary school, Tijucas (1918), 3 Sis- women's society, Gronan (1910), 4 Sisters; man- ters; elementary school, Caspar (1920), 3 Sisters; agement of the household of the workmen's management of the hospital, elementary school, house and Kolping-house, kindergarten, needle-work Laguna (1912), 4 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work school, children's shelter, day shelter, lyceum, Hamm school, elementary school, Rio Negro (1913), 5 (1914), 13 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work school, Sisters.

Hamm St. Joseph (1916), 7 Sisters; kindergarten. The total number of members of the congrega- needle-work school, Haltem (1915), 6 Sisters; kin- tion is 2038, and the total number of houses 156. deigarten, needle-work school, ambulant nursing. There are 104 houses in Germany, 22 houses in Heefsen (1915), 5 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work Holland, and 30 houses in Brazil. Sister Bertha, school, Horstermark (1911), 4 Sisters* kindergarten, superior general for over twenty years, died in 1912 needle-work school, orphanage, higner school for and was succeeded by Sister Hildegundis (Dill- girls, Lobberich (1917), 7 Sisters; kindergarten, mann), who died three years later. The present needle-work school, ambulant nursing, Marien- superior general is Sister Berthilde (Engelbert). baum (1916), 4 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work who was elected at the general chapter in 1916 ana school, ambulant nursing, Mesilm (1910), 6 Sis- has safely guided the congregation through difficult ters; kindergarten, needle-work school, ambulant years.

nursing, Meerbcck (1918), C Sisters; kindergarten, IV. Sisters of Divine Providence (Mainz, Gcr-

needle-work school, ambulant nursing, Moers (1918), many; cf. C. E., V-62d). — The first superior of this

4 Sisters; lyceum, Osterfeld (1921); kindergarten, order. Mother Mary de la Roche, governed but needle-work school, cooking school, Oelde (1912), seven years, when she was superseded by Mother

5 Sisters* management of the household of the M. Vincentia, who filled this important office for workmens house, Recklinghausen Hillerheide twenty-five years. Then followed in succession (1916), 3 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work school. Mothers Walburga, Athanasia, and Sebastian, the boarding house for ladies, Recklinghausen St. last of whom died recently. At present the direc- Paulus (1913), 5 Sisters; kindergarten, needle- tion of the community is under the guidance of school, boarding house for ladies, Recklinghausen Mother M. Josepha. The Sisterhood numbers about St. Paulus (1913), 5 Sisters; kindergarten, needle- 1,000 members actively engaged in 100 branch work school, refuge for girls, Rechlinghausen Sud houses in the diocese of Mainz and Limburg. In (1911), 4 Sisters; kindergarten, needle-work school, recent vears several large institutions have been Recklinghausen Ost (1921), 4 Sisters; kindergarten, established: the Ketteler Institute, for aged in- needle-workschool, boarding house for ladies, Rhein- vsdids; the St. Hildegarde Hospital, a training