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Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo

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below the Strahov Garden and soon became one of the most numerous and most significant congregations in Bohemia. The Prague community was confirmed as a separate congregation in 1841. The main activities of the Borromeo Sisters are health care and services for the elderly.
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in 1884 was, in 1894, made a provincial mother-house and a novitiate for the (Ottoman) Orient, with the direction of schools, an asylum for the aged, and a hospice for German pilgrims. Affiliated foundations have been made at
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By the middle of the 18th century the congregation was in charge of numerous hospitals, and shortly afterward took up as an additional task the Christian education of children. During the
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whence the congregation spread to other cities of western Germany. In 1849 a provincial house was erected at Trier which by decree of
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in 1892. Their work includes the direction of all manner of charitable institutions, such as domestic and trade schools,
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The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo first came from France to Bohemia in 1837 at the invitation of
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of women formed in 1626 for the care of the sick in the hospital of St. Charles at
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German Hospice Jerusalem - The Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo in the Holy Land
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period the members, although dispersed and deprived of their
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Religious organizations established in the 17th century
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Index

Sisters of Mercy
religious congregations
Roman Catholic Church
pious association
Nancy
Abbot
Estivals
Vicar General
Premonstratensians
Charles Borromeo
French Revolutionary
religious habit
Napoleon
rule of St. Augustine
Leo XIII
protectories
poor-houses
Austria
Melchior Freiherr von Diepenbrock
Prince-Bishop of Breslau
Neisse
Trebnitz
Kulturkampf
Teschen
Alexandria
Jerusalem
Haifa
Cairo
Emmaus
Trier

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