Tertiary Sisters

This community of tertiary sisters was established at Taunton, in England, with a branch house at Woodchester.

He founded this congregation of Franciscan tertiary Sisters to help in the work of the missions and spreading the Gospel in that region.

Together they have contributed more than $1.5 million in goods and services to the Tertiary Sisters of St. Francis in Cameroon.

Amigó also founded a religious institute of women, called the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family.

To secure nurses for the hospital, she instituted a congregation of Tertiary Sisters, known as "le poverelle" (Italian for "the little poor ones").

Tertiary Sisters of Saint Francis (TSSF)

They share with the other two congregations stemming from the same founders in mentoring the Tertiary Sisters of St. Francis - Cameroon in Africa.

Age 1889 Chapter of Augustinian Fathers in Manila granted admission to Filipino women to be Augustinian Tertiary Sisters.

In 1998, the Sisters of this congregation joined with the other two congregations which had developed out of this foundation to mentor the Tertiary Sisters of St. Francis - Cameroon in Africa.

While Leo X in the reform of the rule had left it free to the congregations to adopt papal enclosure or not, Pius V (1568) prescribed it to all convents of tertiary sisters with solemn vows.

Twenty-four nuns lived in the convent at the time Jeanne wrote The Short Chronicle, likely with eight discreets- as prescribed by the order of Saint Clare- portresses, a bursar, cooks, a nurse, lay sisters, tertiary sisters, and possibly a laundress, a sacristan, and a gardener.