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The Sisters of the Holy Faith is a Roman Catholic religious congregation, originally for the care of Catholic orphans. It now works broadly in the areas of education and faith development. ==History== It was founded at Dublin, in 1867, by Margaret Aylward,〔(Holy Faith Sisters - Beginnings )〕 under the direction of Rev. John Gowan, C.M. The foundress was called a confessor of the Faith by Pope Pius IX, because of the imprisonment of six months she endured. She was convicted of contempt of court, but acquitted of a charge of kidnapping, after having refused to produce and return an abandoned child to its mother.〔Margaret Helen Preston, ''Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin'' (2004), p. 88.〕 The congregation is especially active in the Archdiocese of Dublin, the residence of the superior general being at Glasnevin, where the sisters conducted a boarding-school for young ladies. The original foundation was St. Brigid's Orphanage, Dublin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sisters of the Holy Faith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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