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School Sisters of Notre Dame is a worldwide religious institute of Roman Catholic sisters devoted to primary, secondary, and post-secondary education. Their life in mission centers on prayer, community life and ministry. The sisters uphold their congregation's founding vision that education has the power to transform the world. They educate in a variety of ways, serving as teachers, administrators, lawyers, accountants, nurses, therapists, social workers, pastoral ministers, social justice advocates and much more. The School Sisters of Notre Dame are known by the abbreviation S.S.N.D. and is not to be confused with another teaching order, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDdeM), which was founded in France. ==Founding and growth== The congregation was founded in Bavaria in 1833 during a time of poverty and illiteracy. Its founder, Caroline Gerhardinger, known by the religious name of ''Mary Theresa of Jesus,'' formed a community with two other women in Neunburg vorm Wald to teach the poor. In 1847, Blessed Theresa and five companion sisters traveled to the United States to aid German immigrants, especially girls and women. That same year, the sisters staffed schools in three German parishes in Baltimore, Maryland: St. James, St. Michael, and St. Alphonsus, as well as opening the Institute of Notre Dame, a private school for German girls. Eventually the Congregation spread across the United States and into Canada, ultimately forming 8 North American Provinces. More than 3,000 School Sisters of Notre Dame work in thirty-four countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania. 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「School Sisters of Notre Dame」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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