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The Religious of the Assumption is a Catholic order of nuns founded in Paris in 1839 by Santa Maria Eugenia Milleret and Father Theodore Combalot. Despite setbacks, the congregation has grown to be active in 35 countries and includes various branches within the “family of the Assumption”.
The Religious of the Assumption is a Roman Catholic order of nuns. It was founded by Santa Maria Eugenia Milleret and Father Theodore Combalot, in Paris, in the year 1839.
The congregation’s beginnings were small and quiet. They were simply a collection of young girls who wanted to devote themselves to the Church. Guided by Combalot who had become not only their priest but also their spiritual advisor, Eugenie and the girls worked towards a shared vision of dedicating their lives to a higher purpose. Unfortunately Father Combalot, for his reasons, left the Congregation in 1841. The girls took their vows as nuns of the Religious of the Assumption that same year.
In 1842, girls opened a school in France. By 1848, their zeal had already spread into an apostolic mission to Africa, a mission that would eventually become the independent Missionary Sisters of the Assumption, and which still thrive today in South Africa and Ireland. By 1989, the religious of the Assumption had already spread to Yorkshire, various European countries, Nicaragua and the Philippines.
In the early years of the 20th century, the congregation met with setbacks. Secularization and anti-religious legislation in the sisters’ native France prompted the sisters to move the mother house to Belgium. The properties owned by the congregation were seized and irretrievably lost.
Despite this, however, the congregation continued to grow. The Sisters of the Assumption Religious were in Denmark, Brazil, Argentina and the United States. By the end of World War II, the congregation had also added countries such as Japan, Thailand and India to its Asian base in the Philippines. The congregation also returned to Africa. Gradually, wearing secular clothes, the sisters also managed to bring their mother house back to France.
Today the nun of the Assumption is active in 35 countries and is made up of nuns of over 40 nationalities. They have communities on three continents and continue to espouse the ideals formed by their founders all those years ago.
Furthermore, the religious of the Assumption branched out not only geographically, but also spiritually. Nowadays, the Religious of the Assumption are but a congregation in the extended “family of the Assumption”, which includes the Oblates (Missionary Sisters) of the Assumption, the Little Sisters of the Assumption, the Praying Sisters of the Assumption, the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc, the Brothers of the Assumption, the Little Sisters of the Presentation of the Madonna and the Sisters of the Cross.
