Filles de Dieu

Filles de Dieu

(Daughters of God), an order of nuns in France who devote themselves to visiting the sick. They repeat the Penitential Psalms once a week. Another religious order bearing the same name was formed in the 13th century, which afterwards became merged in the order of Fontevrault (q.v.).

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature