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VINCENTIAN STUDIES COURSE

BOQUERON, CHIRIQUI, PANAMA

JOHN P. PRAGER, C.M. 1995

 

 
APPENDIX 3: THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY: A VITALITY CURVE

Found ation
1633- 1660
Expan sion
1660-
1760
Stabil
ity
1760-
1789
Crisis

 1790-
1815

2nd.
Foun.
1815-
1860
Expan
sion
1860-
1939
Stability
1945
1965
Break
down
1965-
1980
New
Begin
ning?
1617
Confra
ternity of
Charity
1623
Lumiere
exper-
ience of Louise

 1629
Louise
visits the
Confrat.

 1630
M. Nazeau
& others
work in
Paris
1633
Found.

 1640 
Angers

 1645
Rules

 1651
Poland
Vincent
s.g.

 1655
Act of
Establish
ment
1660
Vincent & Louise
die

1668
Approval
by papal
legate
 
 
 
 
 

1672
Almeras'
version of Rules
 
 
 
 

1712
Organiza
tion into
province
 
 

1718
Statutes
 
 
 

1724
1,600
sisters


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1782
Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1789
3,700 srs
451 houses

French
Revolu
tion
 

Disper-
sion
 
 

1801
Napo-
leon
permits
the Co.
to begin
again
 

Divisions
over the
superior
general

1815
Pope ends the
division

 1830
M.M
 

1833
Italy
1839
Middle
East
 
 
 

1843
Fr. Etienne

Central i
zation

 Codific a
tion

 More like rel.?

1848
China
1849
Brazil
1850
E-burg

 1855
Ireland
1862
Guate.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1935
41,546
sisters

W.W. II

 Commu
nism

 1946
Rome
decides
the s.g.
question
 
 

1954
Const.
 
 
 

Vatican II

 1964
new
habits
 
 
 
 
 
 

1964
44,328
sisters
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Medellin
Puebla
 
 

1965
First
legesla
tive Assy
 
 
 

1968
Provision
al
Const.
 
 
 

Loss of
numbers
 

Experi
ments 

Missions
in Africa
 

1979
36,,737
sisters

1983 Consti- tutions
 

Revision
of works
 
 
 
 
 

Vow
Instruc
tion