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Inmates
Persons in
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45,910
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Poor, Little Sisters op the, an active, unen-
closed religious congregation founded at St Servan,
Brittany, 1839, through the instrumentality of Abbe
Augustin Marie Le Pailleur. To two of his penitents,
in whom he discerned an unusual aptitude for spiritual
things, he had given a rule of life, and had placed one
of them, Marie Jamet, in the position of superior to
her companion, Virginie Tredaniel. These young
workwomen, at the instance of their director, added
to their daily duties the personal care and support of
a poor bUnd woman. While in search of a lodging for
this aged woman the Abbe Le Pailleur formed the
acquaintance of Jeanne Jugan, who was born at
Cancale, 15 May, 1793. She was soon eager to share
in the charitable work, and on 15 October, 1840, Marie
Jamet and \'irginie Tredaniel, with their charge, went
to live in her house. The three young women went
out daily to their work, bringing home their earnings
for their" common support and that of the blind woman.
In course of time they were joined by Madeleine
Bourges and gave shelter to other helpless old people.
The zeal displayed by Jeanne Jugan in securing the
means to support those in their care has caused her
to be regarded as the real foundre-ss of the order.
The congregation is included in the class of hospital- lers. Its constitutions are based on the Rule of St. Augustine, and the sisters take simple and perpetual vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, to which they add a fourth, hospitality. They receive mto their houses aged men and women who have no other shelter. Sixty is the youngest age at which they are admitted, after which they are members of what is known aa the "Little Family", the superior being called by all the "(lood Mother". To the best of
their abilitj' they assist the sisters in the work of the
home. For the support of their foundation the sisters
are dependent absolutely on charity, ha\'ing no fixed
income or endowments, and most of what they receive
they procure by begging. The constitution was defin-
itively approved by Pius X, 7 May, 1907. The
mother -house and no\itiate are at La Tour St
Joseph, St. Pern, Ile-et-'N'ilaine, France; there are
also no\-itiates in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the
United States. The total number of foundations
(1911) is 307; in France there are more than 100
houses, seven of them being in Paris; there are thirty
in England, fifteen in Belgium, fifty-two in Spain,
sixteen in Italy, four in Sicily, forty-nine in America,
three in Australia, one in New Zealand, one in New
Caledonia, etc. The order numbers more than 5400
members. On 19 Januan,-, 1911, the sisters in charge
of the refuge of Campolidc, Lisbon, where they cared
for 329 inmates, were ordered to leave, their places to
be suppUed by lav attendants. In Rome the sisters
have a house near'S. Pietro in ^'incoli. In Kimberley,
South Africa, they are known as Sisters of Nazareth.
Heimbl-cher. Orden und Kongregationen, III (Paderborn. 1908), 388; Steele, Commls of Great Britain (St. Louis, 1902). 244; Lehot, Au pays de la Charite { Abb6\ille. 1903) ; Messenger of the Sacred Heart (February. 1S90), 103-12; Tablet (Oct. 24. 1896). 647; Ram, LiUU Sisters of the Poor (London. 1894).
Blanche M. Kelly.
Poor Brothers of St. Francis Seraphicus, a
congregation of lay brotners of the Third (_)rder of St. Francis, instituted for charitable work among orphan boys and for educating the youth of the poorer classes. The founder w:is Philip Hoever, b. at Obersthohe, near Cologne, Germany, 1816; a schoolmaster at
