What is the significance of our Congregational seal? Since we use our Congregational seal on our website, letterhead stationery, and other public places such as our social media postings, it seemed fitting that I write a blog entry on the meaning of the various parts of the seal, along with an enlarged graphic of the seal so you could see the smaller parts more easily. The name along the outer edges of the seal is Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Augustine, Florida. We are a small diocesan congregation of Catholic women consecrated to God through the evangelical, or Gospel, counsels/vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who was poor, chaste and obedient. We became the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine, Florida in 1899 when Bishop John Moore of St. Augustine made us diocesan, cutting us off from the Motherhouse in Le Puy, France, where we came from in 1866. To our knowledge, we are the only Motherhouse of Catholic women religious in Northeast Florida.
A blog written by and about the Catholic consecrated women religious known as the Sisters of St, Joseph of St, Augustine, Florida, centered on the Motherhouse in St. Augustine.