Sisters Photographs

1860 - 2005

This selection of photographs largely comes from the collected loose portraits of sisters, kept in an alphabetical sequence by surname. The later collection of loose photographs was a continuation of a practice started in the 1860s when a photograph album of named portraits was first compiled. The SHCJ have gathered photographs in this way for over a hundred years in order to have a portrait for every SHCJ sister. We cannot guarantee that every sister is included but, in the vast majority of cases, we can put a face to a name.

The images on this page also come from a series of photographs taken while sisters carried out their ministries together or assembled to celebrate jubilees of sisters’ professions and other important events.

View the images below and get a sense of who the SHCJ were and are, as individual sisters and women religious choosing to live in community to work, prayer for and witness the Church and the people around them.