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Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Archives: Collections and Research

The Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Archives holds the organizational records of the congregation, an apostolic order of women religious with roots in Lyon, France and beginnings in the United States in Texas in 1869.

Highlighted Collection

CCVI Archives on Sound Cloud

Collection of interviews recorded on audiocassette in 1976 (in English and Spanish). The interviews are with Mexican CCVI Sisters who were born in the late 1800s and lived through times of religious persecution during the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War.

Sister Maria Goretti Zehr, CCVI (1931-2001), Interview, 1994

Selected Materials from the Collections


Tiemelonla Nich Klum Coffee Cooperative, Palenque, Chiapas, México

In 1985, Sor Dolores Maria Di Costanzo and Sor Margarita Campos worked with local indigenous Ch’ol communities to start a coffee cooperative. The sisters have worked for the education, and spiritual and physical well-being of the communities, and the cooperative still operates in 2014 with the values of love (amor), truth (verdad), fraternity among partners (fraternidad), unity (unidad), justice (justicia), and peace (paz).

Unveiling of the Stations of the Cross, Headwaters Sanctuary 2013

Ministry Research and Websites - Mexico

MInistry Research and Websites - Peru

Women Religious (Roman Catholic)

Ministry Research and Websites - US

CCVI in Social Media

Related Congregations

Roman Catholics and Social Jusitce

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