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We’ll tell you
a bit about the Salvatorians
and we’ll also give you a
sense of our guiding
beliefs, our mission and how
we are different from most
other groups of women
religious. We'd
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In comparison to many Catholic women’s
communities, the Sisters
of the Divine Savior are
quite a “young”
congregation. While some
groups were founded as early
as the 5th century, we
were founded just over 100
years ago, in 1888. We are
part of the “Salvatorian
family,” which includes Salvatorian priests
and brothers (the Society of
the Divine Savior), Lay
Salvatorians, and more than
1220 Sisters of the
Divine Savior, worldwide.
If you'd like to visit the
web pages of our Salvatorian
family members,
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HERE.
The Sisters’
international headquarters,
or motherhouse, is in Rome,
Italy. We have 29
units, including the North
American Province, which is
headquartered in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. With about
100
sisters, the North American
Province is actually one of
the smaller units; our
largest unit is in southern
Brazil, with over 400 sisters.
More than simply numbers…
But, the Sisters of the
Divine Savior are more than
simply numbers! From the
time we were initially
founded, in 1888, by Father
Francis Jordan (who also
founded the Society of the
Divine Savior in 1881) and
Therese von Wullenweber
(Mother Mary of the
Apostles), the Salvatorian
Sisters have been an outward
focused, active,
mission-centered community,
in which people from all
backgrounds and all walks of
life are involved in the
mission.
For the Sisters of the
Divine Savior, as for all
Salvatorians, the focus
or “mission” is to know and
teach the world about Jesus
Christ, so that
literally everyone could
experience God’s saving and
transforming love.
That’s
why Sisters of the Divine
Savior, today, all over the
world, are actively
committed to promoting
justice and peace for all-
especially for and with
those who are forgotten or
marginalized by our world.
Salvatorian Sisters live
a life that brings together
prayer and service. We
know that God is at the very
center of our lives, so we
commit ourselves to a life
that constantly witnesses to
God’s faithfulness and love.
All over the United
States, and all over the
world, we work in prayer and
service. We are attorneys
and beauticians, educators
and artists, social workers
and mathematicians,
musicians, scientists and
medical professionals. We
drive trucks, build
buildings, birth babies, and
fix computers. We serve God
by our ministries in
parishes, in hospitals, in
nursing homes, in schools…
in clinics for the poor, in
food programs and shelters
for the homeless, and in
every type of work. We
invest our skills,
abilities, gifts, and
education in hard work; we
know that we work alongside
others to create a better
world.
Our way of life is
simple. It reflects the
common person’s life in
whatever culture we live.
Our way of life brings
together service and prayer-
we find God, and God finds
us - in the work we do with
others as we witness to the
goodness and kindness of
Jesus the Savior.
Click here to find out about
our GUIDING BELIEFS.
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