Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi

Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi

The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi is a Roman Catholic religious order for women. The mother house is in St. Francis, Wisconsin, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi was founded in 1849 and the Sisters shared the original founders of the order with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist.

External links

* [http://www.lakeosfs.org/ The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi]
* [http://www.fspa.org/ The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration]
* [http://www.fsecommunity.org The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist]


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