Sisters of Providence

Sister Marie-Claire Soucy, SP, who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.A., entered the sisters of Providence in 1961 after completing her nursing studies.  Soon after her profession, Sister Marie-Claire and three other Sisters of Providence went to Cuernavaca, Mexico, to study Spanish....

For the 179th anniversary celebrations of the town of Ovalle, in the Fourth Region, some 400 km north of Santiago, the municipality set up a recognition ceremony to honor citizens who excelled in the areas of sport, social service and education. On that occasion, Sister Fresia Aguirre, SP...

  History The beginnings of the Philippine Vice-Province can be found in the late 1950’s. This was when Sister Lawrence of Jesus, the Vocation Director in St. Ignatius Province in the Northwest USA traveled to the Philippines where she met with some Filipina women who wished to...

Biography As a Sister of Providence, the first mission experience of Sister Jeanne LeBer (née Aldéa Gascon) was  St-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital (today the Centre Hospitalier Louis-Hyppolite Lafontaine), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada). She first worked with hyperactive patients, then...

Biography Sister María del Pilar was born in Temuco, on January 29, 1899. She devoted 60 years of her life to the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence, carrying the Good News with joy, generosity and missionary fervour to those she called “God’s favourites”. With...

Biography: Sister Marie-Amédée seemed tailored to be a missionary in the Canadian northwest. She loved traveling in the bush, camping, and cooking over a campfire. It had great charm for her. Her first encounters with the native people were in De Smet, Idaho (USA) where she spent...

Biography : Denise Tolan, the daughter of Alma Deschamps Tolan and Congressman John Tolan, grew up in Oakland, CA.  She attended Holy Names Academy in Oakland and was graduated in 1927.  It was on a visit to her cousins in Montana that she first met the Sisters of Providence at...