Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles

The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles is a Catholic religious congregation founded in 1876 in Lyon, France, by Fr Augustin Planque, the first superior general of the Society of African Missions.

Mother Eugenia Ravasio was Superior General from 1935 until 1947; she marked the history of the religious congregation for her work in favour of leprosy and for having received unprecedented visions and revelations from God the Father.

The sisters pronounce the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, for the realization of the first evangelization, the service of the poorest and the promotion of women, in an inter-religious dialogue: "we go beyond the borders of countries and of religions to boldly proclaim the dead and resurrected Christ to a multicultural world.

We are a ferment of hope in a world in search of landmarks and in quest of Absolute.

We live in effective solidarity with the poor, especially with women and all the persons who are marginalized in our contemporary societies".