Month: February 2023

Foundation Day Celebration

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February 2 is always a big day for the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. It is her Foundation Day as well as the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur is 219 years this day. With heart full of gratitude to God for the many blessings received, the Congregation celebrates it’s founding.

Students of Notre Dame Girls’ Academy, Kuje, Abuja depict St. Julie Billiart

St. Julie Biliiart and Françoise Blin de Bourdon were good friends on whose friendship the Congregation was born. The Congregation founding heritage is Simplicity, Charity and Obedience. This founding heritage has kept the Congregation moving as they widen their hearts as wide as the World, in spreading the goodness of God wherever they find themselves.

St. Julie and her daughters by students of Notre Dame Girls’ Academy, Kuje, Abuja
Srs. Josephine Tor and Cordis Onyenagubo, SNDdeN and students of Notre Dame Academy, Akwunanaw, Enugu

Students of Notre Dame Girls’ Academy, Kuje, Abuja