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Our
Founding Story
We were founded as the Franciscan
Sisters of the Eucharist in 1973 by a decree of the Vatican's
Sacred Congregation for Religious.
Our founding was
in response to the call of Vatican II for religious communities
to renew religious life. The fifty five original, founding Sisters
were members of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and had participated in a program of
renewal within that congregation. It was discerned by the Sacred
Congregation for Religious that the new expression of religious
life emerging from this program of renewal would grow more fully
if it were established as a separate congregation in its own right.
As a result, on December 2, 1973, the First Sunday of Advent,
the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist came into being as a Pontifical
Community.
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The
vision and Spirit-directed leadership of our foundresses,
Mother Rosemae
Pender and Mother Shaun Vergauwen,
continued to inspire the community as
they served respectively as Mother General and Vicar General
from the beginning until 2005, at which time, Mother
Shaun Vergauwen was elected Mother General
and Mother Miriam Seiferman was elected Vicar General.
A new
era of founding was inaugurated in December 2002 with the establishment
by the Archdiocese of Hartford of the Franciscan Brothers of
the Eucharist as a Public Association of the Faithful with
the
intention
of
being
aggregated
to the
Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist as the men's branch of
the order.
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