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Founded
in Budapest:
Sharing,
Praying
and Working
Together
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| Fifteen
original
Daughters
of
St.
Francis
of
Assisi
sent
to
America
in
1946 |
The
Congregation
of the
Daughters
of St.
Francis
of Assisi
was founded
by Mother
Anna Brunner
in 1894
in Budapest,
Hungary.
Under her
guidance
a group
of women
came together
to share,
pray and
work together
in community.
As pioneers
of the
Congregation,
the Sisters
started
their works
of charity
in the
streets
of Budapest,
and the
work of
the Congregation
became
like a
constant
adoration;
The life
of the
Congregation
began in
a poor,
small,
battered
house with
a few Sisters
and they
were blessed
as they
together
promoted
the individual
interest
and cares
of the
suffering
people.
During
the dictatorial
regime
of Joseph
II, the
Poor Clares
were forced
out of
the country,
but their
spirit
remained
and was
embodied
in the
new community
of the Daughters
of St.
Francis
of Assisi.
Divine
Providence
sent the
Assisi
Sisters
to heal
the body
and the
soul, to
pray and
to serve.
They lived
in poverty,
chastity
and obedience
and were
called
to make
greater
effort
in practicing
the precepts
and counsels
of our
Lord Jesus
Christ.
The rules
of the
Community
were approved
by the
Sacred
Congregation
1943. The
Sisters
grew in
fervor
and in
number
and expanded
their Provinces.
Following
the guidance
of Divine
Providence,
fifteen
Sisters
from the
Slovakian
Province
were commissioned
to establish
a new branch-province
of the
Community
in America.
In
the company
of Jesus
and Mary, "Star
of the
Sea," the
courageous
Sisters
made the
extensive
trip across
the ocean
in 1946,
and St.
Bede Abbey
and College
in Peru,
Illinois
became
their home
for the
first five
years.
In 1948,
the Sisters
were given
a house
in Lacon
, Illinois
for their
Motherhouse.
Today the
Daughters
of St.
Francis
continue
to carry
on the
mission
entrusted
to them
in 1894.
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Our
life
is
a
Franciscan
life.
A
life
of
penance,
yet
a
life
of
joy
in
serving
our
great
Lord.
Our
primary
aim
is
to
glorify
God
through
a
life
of
holiness.
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