On the 2nd May 1871, Alice Ingham, a 41-year old Lancashire woman, her stepmother and two friends began community life together. In Franciscan simplicity...
Sisters Anne Moore, Assistant Congregational Leader & Bursar, Joan O'Gorman, Secretary General, Sister Maureen Murphy, Congregational Leader, Teresa Wild...
We are an International Franciscan Roman Catholic Missionary Congregation for women. We live in community and we are currently working in the U.K, Ireland...
Francis was born in 1182 to Pia and Pietro Bernadone in Assisi a small town towards the north of Italy. Pietro belonged to the new merchant class, and made a rich living buying and selling cloth. When his first child was born, he was away getting it in France. On his return he discovered that his wife had had the child baptized “John”. He didn’t want that and said his name was to be Francesco, or Francis, and this name [...]
Saints change world says Pope Sunday, 25 September 2011 “Saints, even if there are only a few of them, change the world,” Pope Benedict XVI said to a congregation of over 50,000 in the German city of Erfurt on September 24th. “The saints show us that it is truly possible and good to live our relationship with God in a radical way, to put him in first place, not as one concern among others,” observed the Pope during the open-air [...]
We are registered as a charity for the advancement of the Roman Catholic religion and we evangelise through our charitable works and ministries witnessing to the love of God for all his people, regardless of colour, creed, race, material wealth...
Alice Ingham, the Foundress of the Franciscan Missionaries of St. Joseph, was born on the 8th March 1830 in Rochdale, Lancashire, England. Alice was twelve years old when her mother, Margaret, died in 1842. We do not know the date of the marriage of her father...