Sister Jean Shaffer Sisters of the Divine Savior (also known as the Salvatorian Sisters) is a Roman Catholic religious institute Conventionally, the letters SDS are used to identify the institute.
The Sisters of the Divine Savior are an international order of catholic nuns with a diverse presence across the globe. The female order hold specific interests in supporting vulnerable people including women and children around the world.
IN 2020 Sister Jean Schaffer of The Divine Savior founded 'stop trafficking' and the order targeted areas with instances if high trafficking to launch support programmes for victims.
Worldwide, the institute has about 1200 sisters in 26 countries on five continents. [1] [2]
The institute was founded on December 8, 1888, in Tivoli, Italy.
One of the co-founders, Blessed Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, was beatified on May 15, 2021, in Rome. He also founded the Salvatorian Fathers and Brothers in 1881. Co-founder Blessed Mary of the Apostles (Therese von Wüllenweber), was born on February 19, 1833. She was beatified by Pope Paul VI on October 13, 1968, in Rome.
The institute has served in the US in the area education and health care. In 2021, the Sisters serve in pastoral care, jail ministry, spiritual direction, ESL tutoring and advocacy for anti-human trafficking efforts.
The U.S. Province of the institute is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Sisters serve as religious sponsor for Divine Savior Holy Angels High School [3] and Hadley Terrace Senior Apartments, both in Milwaukee. [4]
Eucharistic adoration is a devotional practice primarily in Western Catholicism and Western Rite Orthodoxy, but also to a lesser extent in certain Lutheran and Anglican traditions, in which the Blessed Sacrament is adored by the faithful. This practice may occur either when the Eucharist is exposed, or when it is not publicly viewable because it is reserved in a place such as a tabernacle.
The Felician Sisters, in full Congregation of Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Assisi, is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of and live in common. This religious institute was founded in Warsaw, Poland, in 1855, by Angela Truszkowska, and named for a shrine of Saint Felix of Cantalice, a 16th-century Capuchin especially devoted to children.
Divine Savior Holy Angels High School (DSHA) is an all-girls Roman Catholic high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee and sponsored by the Sisters of the Divine Savior.
James Alberione, SSP, was an Italian Catholic priest, and the founder of the Society of St. Paul, of the Daughters of St. Paul, of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master, of the Sisters of Jesus the Good Shepherd, of the Sisters of Mary Queen of the Apostles, and other religious institutes, which form the Pauline Family. The first two groups are best known for promoting the Catholic faith through various forms of modern media.
Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, SC was an American Ruthenian Greek Catholic Sister of Charity who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 2014. The beatification ceremony was the first to take place in the United States, being held in Newark, New Jersey.
The Society of the Divine Saviour, abbreviated SDS and also known as the Salvatorians, is a clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men in the Catholic Church. The members of the congregation use the nominal SDS after their names. It has clergy serving in more than 40 countries throughout the world. It was founded in Rome, Italy on 8 December 1881 by Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan. The Generalate of the community is in Rome, at Via della Conciliazione in Palazzo Cesi-Armellini. The current Superior General of the Salvatorians is the Milton Zonta.
The Third Order of Saint Francis is a third order in the Franciscan tradition of Christianity, founded by the medieval Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi.
Mary Frances Schervier, TOSF was a German Catholic nun who founded two congregations of religious sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, both committed to serving the neediest of the poor. One, the Poor Sisters of St. Francis, is based in her native Germany, and the other, the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor, was later formed from its province in the United States.
The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth are a Roman Catholic religious institute that was founded in Rome in 1875 by Blessed Mary Mother of Jesus the Good Shepherd. The Sisters of the Holy Family are an apostolic, international congregation, located on four continents and in thirteen countries. There are five provinces in the United States. A Sister of this congregation is identified by the initials CSFN placed after her name.
Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, SDS, was a German Catholic priest and the founder of the Society of the Divine Savior, commonly called the Salvatorians. He was beatified by Pope Francis on May 15, 2021.
St. Gregory Parish, also known as St. Gregory Nazianzen, is a Catholic parish of the Diocese of Green Bay. Its historic parish church, dedicated to Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, is located at 214 Church Street in the village of St. Nazianz, Wisconsin.
The Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother are a Catholic congregation of Franciscan religious sisters founded in Rome, Italy, in 1883, who serve worldwide, particularly in the field of healthcare.
Maria Therese von Wüllenweber, SDS, religious name Maria of the Apostles, was a German religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She established the Sisters of the Divine Savior – also referred to as the Salvatorian Sisters – with the assistance of the priest Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, founder of the Salvatorians.
Bonaventure Lüthen, S.D.S., was a founding member of the Society of the Divine Savior, commonly called the Salvatorians, and a close collaborator of Venerable Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan. The cause for his beatification was introduced in 1943.
Pankratius Pfeiffer was a German Catholic priest and superior general of the Salvatorian order for 30 years. During the Nazi occupation of Rome during the Second World War, he acted as an informal liaison between Pope Pius XII and the German leadership. In this capacity, he rescued hundreds of Jews and others in Rome from execution by the Nazis. He also persuaded the Nazis to spare several Italian cities from destruction during their retreat from Italy. As a result, Pfeiffer became known as "the Angel of Rome."
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