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Order history

At the beginning ...

of our order's history is a letter from Father Gerhard Dall, of the St. Georg Parish in Thuine, which he wrote to the Superior of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in Strasbourg on March 31, 1857. In it, he asked for sisters to take care of the inhabitants of his village of Thuine, who often suffered from typhoid fever.

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 Mother M. Anselma Bopp                                Pastor Gerhard Dall

On May 25, 1857, Sister M. Anselma, aged 22, and the slightly older Sister Marianne arrived in Thuine.

12 years later - in 1869 - her then Superior General in Strasbourg asked Sister M. Anselma to return to Strasbourg immediately. This brought Sister M. Anselma into a serious conflict of conscience. Faced with the poverty and misery of the sick and orphans she had taken in at St. George's Abbey, built in 1860 with funds from Father Dall, Sister M. Anselma felt that she could not abandon these people in Thuine alone. On the other hand, she felt bound by the instructions of her Superior General. After a hard struggle in prayer, Mother M. Anselma and her co-sisters decided to separate from Strasbourg and found a new community.

Thus, on November 25, 1869, as the first four sisters took vows according to the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, this small daughter house became the Thuine Congregation, officially the "Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George", with Mother M. Anselma Bopp as the first Superior General.

 March 31, 1857

Request of Pastor Dall
from St. George Parish in Thuine,
to the Superior of the Holy Cross Sisters in Strasbourg 

 May 25, 1857

Arrival of Sister Marianne and Sister M. Anselma in Thuine 

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The Brockermöller House


 Learn more about 1857: 

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St. George Stift an Motherhouse gate and chapel

 

1860

Building of the St. George Stift 
– financed by Father Gerhard Dall, Thuine  

November 25, 1869

 Beginning of our Congregation:

 Profession of vows
by the first four sisters according
to the Rule of the
Third Order Regular of St. Francis;

Installation of Mother M. Anselma Bopp 
as first Superior General

 

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Mother M. Anselma Bopp

Learn more about 1869: 

 

   
Bad Iburg Schule
 Old school in Bad Iburg, where mother M. Anselma began her teaching career.

March 1, 1871

First mission house – Iburg, Teutenburg Forest,
Teaching and home health care

July 12, 1874

Death of Pastor Gerhard Dall  
(His foundation had 42 sisters und 120 pupils)

November 23, 1875 

 First mission house in Holland/the Netherlands,
in Denekamp/Noord-Deurningen,

St. Nicholas-Stift 
as potential alternative in the Kulturkampf

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Gravenhuis with St. Nikolaus-Stift

Learn more about Denekamp:

To the homepage of Denekamp / NL

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June 1, 1881 


Dedication of the first Motherhouse Church
(St. George Chapel) 

October 4, 1898

Consecration of the St. George Chapel

July 17, 1887

Death of the foundress Mother M. Anselma Bopp 

(The Congregation numbered 11 houses, 146 living sisters and 30 deceased sisters) 
 

 

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Grave of mother M. Anselma in today's motherhouse cemetery

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Coat of arms of the congregation

September 29, 1895

First taking of perpetual vows by the 65 sisters who had already lived under temporary vows for at least ten years  

1909 

Approval of the Congregation by Pope Pius X with the title: "Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George in Thuine"  

Approval

of the first Constitutions 

August 1, 1914

Introduction of Perpetual Adoration
in front of the tabernacle

(today's St. George's Chapel)

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August 18, 1920 

First missionary foundation in Japan,  
in Sapporo/Hokkaido

More about Japanese Province

Website of the Japanese Province

December 26, 1923

Arrival of the first sisters in the USA, in St. Louis, “Boys’ Home“ 

April 1, 1925

Establishment of the mission house “St. Anthony’s Hospital“ 
in Alton, U.S.A. 

More about american Province

Homepage of the american Province

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St. Anthonys Hospital

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July 25, 1929 


Consecration of Christ the King Church
by Nuncio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) 

(March 20, 1928 – laying of the cornerstone) 

June 4, 1932

First missionary foundation in Indonesia, in Pringsewu, South Sumatra

 

More about indonesian Province

Homepage of the indonesian Province

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Sending out the first sisters, from left:
Zr. M. Engelmunda v. Orten, Zr. M. Odulpha Schwalenberg, Mdr. M. Beda Stückenberg, Zr. M. Solanis Meyer, Zr. M. Arnolde Wouters

   

July 25, 1953

Perpetual Adoration before the exposed
Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance

in the St. Francis Chapel of our Christ the King Church
granted by Pope Pius XII

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First monstrance (Chapel of St. Francis) 

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November 25, 1953

Division of our Congregation into three Provinces and two Vice-Provinces:

Generalate St. George
Province St. Francis (Germany)
Province St. Anthony (the Netherlands)
Province St. Mary (Japan)
Vice-Province St. Elizabeth (U.S.A.)
Vice-Province St. Joseph (Indonesia)

June 15, 1954

Papal approval of the amendments to the
Constitutions necessitated by the formation of provinces

July 23, 1960

Arrival of the first sisters in Tanzania,
Diocese of Mbeya

The mission is dedicated to St. Clare.
The mission was active until 2004.

 

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Learn more

   
   
II. Vatikanisches Konzil

April 1966

General Chapter with discussions
on the renewal of religious life

1969

Special Extraordinary General Chapter
with discussions and decisions
regarding the new Constitutions

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February 14, 1972

First missionary foundation in Brazil, in Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre.

The mission is consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Learn more about our Brazilian mission

November 23,1986

Consecration of the new altar in the Christ the King Church and blessing of the expanded adoration chapel, by Bishop Helmut Hermann Wittler, Osnabrück

Juni 4, 1989

Dedication of the organ
in Christ the King Church

 Orgel neu

   

August 14, 2001

Beginning of our mission in Delvine,
in atheistic Albania 

 

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Link zur Unterseite Assisi

Dezember 2, 2005

Establishment of our house in Assisi

Januar 1, 2011

Beginning of our mission in Cuba,
active until February 9, 2023

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Klosterstraße 14
D-49832 Thuine
Phone +49 5902 501-206
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Dr. Eva Maria Öing
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Lingener Straße 22
D-49716 Meppen
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