Sisters of St. Joseph
Overview
The title Sisters of St. Joseph applies to several Roman Catholic religious congregations of women. The largest and oldest of these was founded in Le Puy-en-Velay
Le Puy-en-Velay
Le Puy-en-Velay is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.Its inhabitants are called Ponots.-History:Le Puy-en-Velay was a major bishopric in medieval France, founded early, though its early history is legendary...

, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. This Congregation has approximately 14,000 members worldwide: about 7,000 in the United States; 2,000 in France; and are active in fifty other countries.

The Congregation was founded in Le Puy by the Jesuit Jean Paul Médaille
Jean Paul Médaille
Jean Paul Médaille was a French Jesuit missionary, and founder of an order of Catholic religious sisters.Médaille was born at Carcassonne, Department of Aude, France...

 on October 15, 1650.
 
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