| LC control no. | no2018057424 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Armen-Schwestern vom heiligen Franziskus |
| Variant(s) | Aachener Franziskanerinnen Schervier Schwestern (Religious order) Sorores Pauperum Sancti Francisci Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis (Aachen, Germany) Congregation of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis |
| See also | Founder: Schervier, Franziska, 1819-1876 Product of split: Franciscan Sisters of the Poor (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| Beginning date | 1845 |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Located | Aachen (Germany) |
| Found in | Engels-Fietzek, Petra. The life of Frances Schervier, 2002: title page verso (Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, Aachen, Germany) Armen-Schwestern vom heiligen Franziskus (website), viewed February 8, 2018 : home page (Armen-Schwestern vom heiligen Franziskus; Aachener Franziskanerinnen; Sorores Pauperum Sancti Francisci) Erkennungszeichen (also known as Schervier Schwestern or Aachener Franziskanerinnen) Zeitleiste (Franziska Schervier takes steps to found order on May 11, 1845; Church approves "Statut für die Armen-Schwestern vom heiligen Franziskus zu Aachen" in 1851; Order divides into two independent orders in 1959, Armen-Schwestern vom heiligen Franziskus (SPSF) with Generalate in Aachen, Germany, and Fransiscan Sisters of the Poor (SFP) with Generalate in Rome, Italy) Konvente (convents located in chiefly in Germany, also in Belgium, Denmark) <http://www.schervier-orden.de> New Catholic encyclopedia, 2003: volume 5, page 883 (papal congregation begun in Aachen, Germany, Oct. 3, 1845, by Frances Schervier for service to sick and poor; by 1851, professed rule of life based on Rule of Third Order Regular of St. Francis; six sisters arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1858 to begin congregation's ministry in health care in United States; in 1959, by decree of Sacred Congregation for Religious, the Congregation of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis officially divided into two autonomous religious congregations, each of Pontifical Right; sisters in United States and Italy became known as Franciscan Sisters of the Poor) |
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