The Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, acronym H.S.C.,[1] is an institute of consecrated life established in 1881 by the Italian priest St. Benedict Menni (1841–1914) together with María Josefa Recio and María Angustias Giménez.
The congregation was founded on 31 May 1881, in the psychiatric hospital of Ciempozuelos, near Madrid, by Father Benedetto Menni (1841-1914), a friar of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, assisted by two nuns from Grenada (María Josefa Recio and María Angustias Giménez) in order to provide better care for the inmates of the psychiatric center.
[3] The Congregation of the Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart is a centralized organization, whose government is vested in the Superior General, with headquarters in Rome.
The position of Superior General is currently held by the Portuguese nun Idília Maria Carneiro.
Hospitality, as Sisters Hospitallers live it in their charism, obliges us to welcome all, independently of religion or their life plans.