Society of the Holy Child Jesus

The Society of the Holy Child Jesus is an international community of Roman Catholic sisters founded in England in 1846 by Philadelphia-born Cornelia Connelly.

There she drew up a set of rules for a new religious congregation, which she called the "Society of the Holy Child Jesus".

[3] Bishop Nicholas Wiseman sent her to a convent at St Mary's Church, Derby, where she was soon running a day school for 200 students and training novices for her new institute.

[4] In December 1847, she took her perpetual vows as a religious sister and was formally installed as superior general of the society.

In 1848, Wiseman, unable to meet expenses connected with the schools, had Cornelia relocate to his district at St. Leonard's-on-Sea in Sussex.