Daughters of Charity refers to:
St. Francis or Saint Francis may refer to:
Josephine Margaret Bakhita,, was a Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister who lived in Italy for 45 years, after having been a slave in Sudan. In 2000 she was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Sacred Heart Canossian College is a Catholic, all-girls' school established at Robinson and Caine Roads, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. Founded in 1860, the school currently serves under 2,000 students and has been identified as one of the most prestigious schools in Hong Kong.
St. Mary's Canossian College is a Catholic girls secondary school in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The school was founded in 1900, and is situated at the junction of Austin Road and Chatham Road South.
Canossa is a comune and castle town in the Province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is the site where Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance in 1077, standing three days bare-headed in the snow, in order to reverse his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII. The Walk to Canossa is sometimes used as a symbol of the changing relationship between the medieval Church and State.
Magdalena di Canossa was an Italian professed religious and foundress of the two Canossian orders. Magdalena was a leading advocate for the poor in her region after she witnessed first hand the plight of the poor following the spillover effects of the French Revolution into the Italian peninsula through the Napoleonic invasion of the northern territories. Canossa collaborated with humanitarians such as Leopoldina Naudet and Antonio Rosmini in her mission of promoting the needs of the poor and setting a new method of religious life for both men and women.
St. Francis' Canossian College was founded on 7 May 1869 as the second school established by the Italian Canossian Daughters of Charity in Hong Kong. The wall painting of four Guardian Angels playing instruments is the school's mascot.
Canossa Hospital (Caritas) is a private hospital in Hong Kong.
Poonthura is a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, India. It is on the landing path of flights to Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.
Via et veritas et vita is a Latin phrase meaning "the way and the truth and the life". The words are taken from Vulgate version of John 14:6, and were spoken by Jesus Christ in reference to himself.
St. Philomena's Girls High School, Poonthura is a girls' high school in Poonthura, Kerala, India. It is run by the Canossian Daughters of Charity. The school was established in 1952.
Canossa Girls Inter College is a Catholic convent school in Lucknow, India.
The Canossians are a family of two religious institutes and three affiliated organizations that trace their origin to Magdalen of Canossa (1774–1835) who was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1988.
Canossa Academy of Lipa City in Batangas, Philippines. It is one of the four schools owned and administered by the Canossian Sisters. These sisters belong to the religious congregation called the Canossian Daughters of Charity, which originated in Verona, Italy and whose members are spread all over the world. They came to the Philippines in 1954 from the Canossian Province of Hongkong to open apostolic mission where they are needed. They opened a school in Sta. Rosa, Laguna in 1954, San Pablo City in 1955 and Calamba, Laguna in 1964.
Sacred Heart Canossian School is a Catholic girls' school established at Caine Road, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. SHCS is partially funded by the Government as a Subsidised School. It has been considered one of the most prestigious primary schools in Hong Kong. Its affiliated secondary school Sacred Heart Canossian College is also highly reputed.
Canossa School of Santa Rosa, Laguna is the first Canossian School and the first Canossian Sisters community in the Philippines. These Sisters belong to the religious congregation called the Canossian Daughters of Charity, which originated in Verona, Italy and whose members are spread all over the world. They came to the Philippines from the Canossian Province of Hongkong to open apostolic missions where they were needed. Mother Dalisay Lazaga, was once the Mother Superior of the Canossian Daughters of Charity, she is now under the process of sainthood.
St. Francis Xavier's Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Pizhala, Kerala, in the Archdiocese of Verapoly.
Fernanda Riva (1920–1956), was a Roman Catholic Nun of Canossian Daughter of Charity congregation.
Bishop Eustachio Vito Modesto Zanoli, O.F.M, was an Italian missionary of the Order of Friar Minor. Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicars of Eastern Hupeh, now Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou. He was founder of the Catholic hospital in Wuhan, now Central Hospital of Wuhan.
The Sisters of the Precious Blood is a female religious teaching and social congregation of pontifical right founded in Monza in 1874 and still headquartered there as of 2021. It is dedicated to teaching, charity and social works present in Italy, Brazil, Kenya, East Timor, Burma. In 2017, the congregation had 385 sisters in 55 communities.