Religious Congregations of the Presentation
Congregation of the Presentation may refer to several Roman Catholic female religious congregations. They independently took their names from the Presentation of Mary at the Temple in Jerusalem, as her parents consecrated their young girl to God.
Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM)
The Presentation Sisters, officially the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are a religious institute founded in Cork, Ireland, by Honora "Nano" Nagle in 1775. Historically, the sisters focused their energies on creating and staffing schools that would educate young people, especially young women., over 1,400 Presentation Sisters are active in 19 countries. The Sisters' example inspired the formation of the Presentation Brothers by Ireland's Edmund Ignatius Rice in 1802.Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (SSF)
Unrelated to the Irish-rooted PBVM, another congregation named Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1837 by Henriette DeLille for African-American women in New Orleans. In 1842, this congregation renamed itself the Sisters of the Holy Family. They have also served in Panama, Belize, and Nigeria, and numbered 83 sisters as of 2017.Daughters of the Presentation (France, 1627–c.1800)
The Daughters of the Presentation were a French congregation, founded in 1627 by, Bishop of Senlis. He turned his attention to the foundation of a teaching order to combat the prevailing ignorance and the resulting vice in the diocese. Two young women from Paris, Catherine Dreux and Marie de la Croix, began the work of teaching in 1626 and the following year were formed into a religious community, which shortly afterwards was enclosed under the Rule of St. Augustine.The opposition of the municipal authorities gave way before the Bull of erection granted by Pope Urban VIII and letters patent of Louis XIII granted in 1630, the year in which the first solemn profession was held. In 1632, papal permission was obtained for two of Bishop Sanguin's sisters and a companion to leave their Moncel monastery of the Order of St. Clare, to form the new community in the religious life. Seven years later, they were received as members into the new order, over which they presided for more than thirty years. The congregation did not survive the French Revolution, although under Bonaparte one of the former members organized at Senlis a school which was later taken over by the municipality. The habit was black serge over a robe of white serge, with a white guimpe, a black bandeau, and veil. The Catholic Encyclopedia speculates that the original constitutions were altered by Sanguin's nephew and successor as Bishop of Senlis, owing to the frequent reference made in them to the devotion of Slavery to Our Lady, which was suppressed by the Catholic Church.