House diaries and accounts of the Mission
- AU PMB MS 1155
- Collection
- 1921-1967
The Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was founded at Issoudun in France by Rev. Fr Jules Chevalier in 1882 in association with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC). The foundress of the community was Mother Marie Louise Hartzer. The Congregation established a half-way house to the Missions in Sydney, began their mission on Thursday Island, then extended to Yule Island in Papua, in August 1887, and to Rabaul in 1891. The first group of DOLSH Sisters arrived in the Gilbert Islands in 1895, lead by Sister Isabel, and a second group, including Sister Clémentine, arrived in January 1899. In 1923 Sister Isabel was replaced as the Superior in the Gilbert Islands by Sister Yvonne. She was succeeded by Sister Clémentine in 1933. The DOLSH Sisters stayed on in the Gilberts during World War II.
House diary (in French), 1921-1945; House diary (in French), 1946-1967; Photographs of Sister M. Clémentine Pineau and others; Sister Mary Clémentine Pineau’s Account of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Kiribati, 1898-1961 (in English); Sister Mary Oliva Lynch’s, Account of the MSC Mission in Kiribati, including biographies of priests, brothers, sisters, catechists and others (in Gilbertese).<P><b>See reel list for further details</B>
Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Kiribati