“Let us continue to trust… without fearing anything!”
With deep joy and gratitude, we celebrate the legacy and ongoing mission of the Sisters Hospitallers — a journey rooted in faith, compassion, and unconditional service.
This anniversary is more than a milestone; it is a living testimony of the love that has healed hearts, uplifted the vulnerable, and embraced those most in need. Across generations and continents, our commitment to hospitality, dignity, and care remains unwavering.
We invite you to watch this special video tribute, a reflection of the lives touched and the enduring spirit of our charism. May it renew in all of us the call to serve with courage, trust, and joy.
In every gesture of care, we continue to build a more compassionate world.
With heartfelt thanks to our Sisters, collaborators, and all those who walk with us on this sacred journey.
The Congregation of the Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was founded on 31 May 1881 in Ciempozuelos-Madrid (Spain), by St. Benedict Menni, a priest of the Order of St. John of God, together with the Venerable María Josefa Recio and María Angustias Gimenez.
Open to the spirit, they were chosen by God to respond to the situation of health neglect and social exclusion of women with mental illness at the time. Two criteria guided the beginnings, and continue to be fundamental in the practice of hospitality: charity and science.
The early days were particularly difficult. It was a project of great magnitude: to respond to the abandonment of the sick and the lack of adequate public health care, which was especially striking in the case of people with mental illness, children with bone malformations, scrofula, tuberculosis, and other ailments, reduced to marginality and abandoned to their own fate.
St. Benedict Menni, the Venerable María Josefa Recio, María Angustias Giménez and an initial group of eight sisters dedicated themselves to respond to this neglected sector of society. This is how the feminine face of hospitality is offered.
The lack of means, economic resources and assistance could only be compensated by the generous dedication of the sisters and the invaluable help of collaborators, benefactors and volunteers. Today this work of the Spirit is growing and expanding in Europe, America, Africa and Asia. The mission and the founding spirit of the Congregation are still valid and necessary to collaborate in an inhospitable world, in favor of the most disadvantaged people.