Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

The Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (La Congrégation des sœurs de Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours) (NDPS) is a Roman Catholic Institute of Apostolic Life founded in the parish of Saint-Damien-de-Buckland, Bellechasse, 28 August 1892, by Abbé J.O.

Brousseau recruited the first four religious, among whom was Virginie Fournier, a teacher from Fall River, Massachusetts, originally from Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-De Lévy, Lévis.

[4] In August 1892, Brousseau, with the help of Fournier, founded the community of the Sœurs de Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours, whose mission was the care of the elderly and orphans as well as the education of children.

[5] In September, Fournier, or Mother Saint-Bernard as she was called, and the sisters took charge of the classes in the village, and in November they moved into the first wing of the convent he had built.

The sisters are nurses, dentists, phytotherapists, optometrists, podiatrists, accountants, secretaries, bakers, cooks, seamstresses, hairdressers, painters, iconographers, sculptors, musicians, shoemakers, farmers, laundry workers, etc.

The Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours Historic Center was built in the late 1980s and since January 2021, is under the auspices of the Société historique de Bellechasse.