René Voillaume

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René Voillaume

French religious leader

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Little Brothers of Jesus and Little Sisters of Jesus
…were founded in 1933 by René Voillaume in southern Oran, Algeria; the Little Sisters (L.S.J.) were founded in September 1939 at Touggourt, Algeria, by Sister Madeleine of Jesus. Both congregations lived in small groups, called fraternities, in ordinary dwellings among the poor laboring classes. They held the same type of…
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…were founded in 1933 by René Voillaume in southern Oran, Algeria; the Little Sisters (L.S.J.) were founded in September 1939 at Touggourt, Algeria, by Sister Madeleine of Jesus. Both congregations lived in small groups, called fraternities, in ordinary dwellings among the poor laboring classes. They held the same type of…
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