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The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose members are commonly known as the Loreto Sisters, is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women dedicated to education founded in Saint-Omer by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609.
Mary Ward, IBVM CJ (23 January 1585 – 30 January 1645) [1] was an English Catholic religious sister whose activities led to the founding of the Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Sisters of Loreto.
In 1609, Mary Ward founded one of the first groups of active religious women in the Church, the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known in Ireland and throughout the world as Loreto Sisters. Mary, an English woman was born in Yorkshire in 1585. She lived in an age of religious intolerance.
The Sisters of Loretto were founded in 1812 by three women, Mary Rhodes, Ann Havern, and Christina Stuart, under the guidance of Fr Charles Nerinckx in Kentucky as The Little Society of the Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross. [3] Their mission was to educate the poor children of the frontier. They were an early group to receive Black ...
The Loreto Sisters belong to one branch of the Institute of the ‘Congregatio Jesu’, earlier called the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), the religious order founded by an English Woman from a recusant background, Mary Ward in 1609.
Eleven Sisters of Loreto came to Calcutta on 30 December 1841 from Ireland (the congregation was founded in Ireland, ed) and were the first religious sisters to land in North India. The first house of the religious sisters was opened in January 1842 and during the same year an orphanage in Calcutta was launched.
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Mary Ward, who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters) was born in England at the time of Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare. She became one of the greatest English women of the seventeenth century – a courageous innovator, a mystic, a holy woman and an inspirational leader.
