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SMSM — Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary

Collaborators in Continuing the Mission of Mary in the Church (1) In 2016, it was 200 years since the twelve Marist aspirants climbed the hill to the shrine of Our Lady of Fourvière. There they pledged to found a new Society bearing the name of Mary and living her spirit. The seeds of the branch of the […]

Eighty years in Aotearoa New Zealand

2014 was a year of thanksgiving for the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary since it marked eighty years since the opening of their first community in New Zealand.  We have been known through the years as the “Leper Nursing Sisters”, the Missionary Sisters, or simply the “SMSM”.  A number of sisters had been […]