Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche

), also called the Sisters of Villefranche, is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common.

By the time Rodat died in 1852, there were 38 houses, 25 cloistered communities, and 32 schools with over 5,000 students sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche in several countries.

In 1993, they opened their ministries to the laity, forming groups in England, Brazil, the Ivory Coast, Spain, France, and Lebanon.

Two years later, she was able to buy better buildings for her school, but the congregation's existence was threatened by a series of unexplained illnesses and deaths of the students and teachers that was attributed to "diabolic influence".

Rodat and her nuns took perpetual vows in the autumn of 1820, and according to church historian and hagiographer Alban Butler, they adopted a habit "of which the distinguishing feature was the transparent edge of the veil covering the upper part of the face".

[5] At the time of her death in 1852, there were 38 houses, 25 cloistered communities, and 32 schools with over 5,000 students sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche in several countries.

[1] The Sisters of Villefranche is grouped into eight geographic sectors: France, the Ivory Coast-Senegal, Spain, England-Ireland, Lebanon, Bolivia, Brazil, and the Philippines.

The congregation meets every five years in its general chapter conference, organized by its lay members, at its mother community in Villefranche.

Groups of lay members of the congregation have been formed in England, Brazil, the Ivory Coast, Spain, France, and Lebanon.

[11] Lay members commit to daily personal prayer, regularly reading the scriptures and the writings of Rodat, Biblical formation, and "rereading one's life in the Light of the Gospel".