Today marks the founding of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary in France in 1791. At the height of the French Revolution, Adelaide de Cicé, a French noblewoman, founded this community. What made this community different was that the sisters didn’t wear habits, nor were they known as sisters. To this day they still don’t use the title. While the revolutionary crackdown on the Church was the immediate impetus for this approach, their anonymity (s their vision statement reads)... Read more