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Who are we?

We are Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, a Congregation founded in the little village of Lovendegem, in the diocese of Gent, Belgium on the 4th November 1803 by Canon Peter Joseph Triest. It is an International Religious Institute of Pontifical Right with its specific mission to reveal that GOD IS LOVE to all especially to the poor and the abandoned.