The Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir or the Sœurs de la Providence de Ruillé-sur-Loir, France, are a congregation of Roman Catholic religious

Religious (Catholicism)

In the lexicon of certain branches of Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox branches, religious as a noun usually refers to a member of a religious order of monks, nuns, friars, clerics regular, or other individuals who take the three vows of poverty, chastity, and...

 sisters. It was founded in 1806 by Father Jacques-Francois Dujarié

Jacques-Francois Dujarié

Father Jacques-François Dujarié was a French Catholic priest of the Diocese of Le Mans, France ordained underground in the height of the terrors of the French Revolution...

. In 1840 Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

Theodore Guerin

Saint Mother Théodore Guérin , designated by the Vatican as Saint Theodora, is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, a congregation of Catholic nuns...

 and several other Sisters of Providence went to Indiana

Indiana

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 and founded the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are an apostolic congregation of Catholic women founded by Saint Theodora Guerin at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, in 1840...

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The Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir

Ruillé-sur-Loir

Ruillé-sur-Loir is a commune in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region in north-western France.The village has a medieval and Renaissance parish church but is dominated by the school and the mother house of the order of Sisters of Providence...

currently have 377 sisters ministering in France, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Madagascar and Sri Lanka.