Mother house, Ibrine. Sainte Famille, Lebanon
Building the Mother House
The basic objective of Mother
Stéphanie was to build the mother house. The decision was taken at once,
with the new construction to be built over the blood of the Founding
Martyr. Mother Stéphanie, herself, directed the labor force and the
works. The first stone of the chapel was laid in 1907.
The
Founder consecrated it in 1913 and the work was completed by 1917. The
convent doors were wide open to accept young girls, according to the
main aim, for which the Congregation had been founded. Mother Stéphanie
built a school as well as a boarding home.Fortified by the blood of the
Founding Martyr, the unshakable faith and iron will of its co-founder,
the nascent Congregation developed and expanded with astonishing
rapidity, to become a very huge tree where birds have come to nest, from
having been a mustard seed, as the Founder witnessed himself.
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