Les Filles de la Sagesse
Les Filles de la Sagesse
Founded by Blessed Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, 1703 , by banding together a number of poor and afflicted girls at the hospital of Poitiers where the founder was temporary chaplain. Since the first establishement at La Rochelle, 1713 , the congregation has grown to over 420 houses in France , Belgium , Holland, Denmark , Italy , South Africa, England , Canada , the United States, Haiti, and Colombia ; the mother-house is at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, La Vendee, France ; the total number of religious is 4,912. Since 1715 it has been both hospitaller and teaching, embracing all charitable works in hospitals, prisons, orphanages, asylums, schools, kindergartens, training schools, day-nurseries, institutions for the deaf, dumb, and blind, poor-houses, and homes.