Daughters of the Holy Heart of Mary
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The Daughters of the Holy Heart of Mary (French: Filles du Saint-Cœur de Marie) is a Roman Catholic religious institute, founded in Senegal on May 24, 1858 by Aloyse Kobès. It was the first indigenous religious institute in Africa.[1]
Kobès would go on to become the first Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia.[2] The first nuns were Thérèse Sagna and Louise de Saint-Jean, the first African nuns outside Ethiopia.[1]
References
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- ↑ Adrian Hastings, Aloÿs Kobès, Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Accessed 31 May 2012.
