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About us:
Expelled from Prussia in Germany during the Kulturkampf in the 1870s, various
groups of Sisters of Notre Dame found temporary hospitality with other religious
congregations or in other residences in the Netherlands until those who could
travel sailed to the United States. The first Notre Dame convent in the Netherlands
was established in Wessem in 1877, where sisters not transferred to the United
States could live. The community grew as postulants were accepted. In 1881
the novitiate was moved to Vechta in Oldenburg, Germany. In an effort to train
teachers for Germany, a teacher training college was opened at Tegelen, but
was forced to close when Prussian officials refused to allow teachers trained
abroad to take the teacher exams. The Tegelen college students were transferred
to Vechta and the former college became an orphanage. In 1925 Tegelen became
the provincial centre for the Netherlands province. Today sisters minister
in Limburg and in Noord Brabant.
Ministries include:
- Catechesis
- Communications
- Formation for religious life
- Home for elderly
- Parish ministries
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