Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres

The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres (SPC) is a Roman Catholic religious apostolic missionary congregation of pontifical right for teaching, nursing, visiting the poor and taking care of orphans, the old and infirm, and the mentally ill. It was founded in Levesville-la-Chenard, France, in 1696.^[2]

The interior spirit is a love of sacrifice and labor for the spiritual and temporal good of others.^[3]

In 1696, the congregation was founded by Louis Chauvet,^[2][4] the parish priest of Levesville-la-Chenard, a little French village, and Marie-Anne de Tilly, a young woman from a noble family. Chauvet enlisted three volunteers. Their first house belonged to Chauvet.

The first superior, Marie Michau, died in 1702, She was succeeded by Marie-Anne de Tilly, who died the following year. In 1708 the small community of sister was entrusted to the Bishop of Chartres, Paul Godet des Marais. The bishop gave them a small house and the Apostle Paul as a patron. The house formerly belonged to a sabot-maker, and this gave them the name of "les Sœurs sabotières de Saint-Maurice", by which they were originally known.^[3]

In 1727, the sisters were asked by Louis XV to establish a foreign mission at Cayenne in French Guiana. The congregation was dispersed under the Terror, during the French Revolution, but was restored by Napoleon I,^[5] who gave the sisters a monastery at Chartres, which originally belonged to the Jacobins, from which they became known as "les Sœurs de St. Jacques".

香港

聖パウロ・ド・シャルトル修道女会の最初の修道女たちは1848年に香港に到着しました。修道女たちによって設立された施設には以下が含まれます。^{[ 7 ]}

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• セントポール病院（香港）
• 聖テレサ病院

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• ベンジャミン夫人

 この記事は、現在パブリックドメインとなっている出版物からのテキストを組み込んでいます。Steele , Francesca Maria (1908). " Sisters of Charity ". Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. 3.最後から2番目の段落を参照。  ; エントリー都市:

• スティール著『英国の修道院』（ロンドン、1902年）

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