What are the sources of the story of the Little Sisters of the Assumption?
The archives of the little Sisters of the Assumption bear witness to their activity and mission from their foundation to the present day.
Archives of the Little Sisters of the Assumption
The collection of the archives of the Little Sisters of the Assumption, kept in Paris, rue Violet, at the Mother House of the Congregation, allows us to trace the origins, history and life of the Congregation, as well as the communities and religious that make up it.
The funds are diverse and very rich, preserving correspondence from the founders, as well as chronicles, stories and newspapers (especially during the war of 14-18), documents on the PSA Mission… among others. The media are also varied: paper, but also photos, drawings, audio-visual documents and various objects.
Two other congregations were integrated into the PSA during its history: the Little Sisters of the Fields (1962) and the Servas dos Pobres (1950). The documents from these two congregations are also in our holdings.
Presentation of the service’s missions
The archives service of the Little Sisters of the Assumption is composed of three people. Our mission can be defined according to 4 axes:
Little Sister on mission in Madagascar
COLLECT documents, to enrich our funds so that what is happening today can become history tomorrow. This operation consists mainly of collecting documents from the Secretariat and the General Council, as well as from the communities and religious themselves.
CONSERVATION which consists in keeping the documents in the best possible conditions (temperature, light, humidity, etc.), and protecting them from dust and light using suitable packaging.
CLASSiFY documents, in order to make them available for research. This leads to the drafting of a research instrument, which describes the documents in order to find them.
COMMUNICATION which is the provision of archives for researchers, both through exhibitions or articles, as well as through responses to research requests or the reception of historians in our premises.
The Little Sisters through Time
Founders in New York
In 1891, the little Sisters left to found a first community in North America, in New York
Little Sisters on mission in Colombia
Little Sisters go to Mission in Colombia on canoes (circa 1940)
Little Sisters on mission in Venezuela
Little Sisters of Venezuela in 1966
Read articles related to the archives of the Congregation
Portraits of our Founders: the exhibition
To mark the bicentenary of the birth of the congregation’s Founders, both of whom were born in 1824, the archives department has produced an exhibition which is currently on display...
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History of the LSAs in Naples
The community of the Little Sisters of the Assumption in Naples had to close in November 2023, after eighty-eight years of an almost continuous existence in the city, with only...
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“The film Lumière des Hommes (The Light of Man”)
The large reels in these photos, contained in easy-to-carry cases, comprise a film produced in 1962 at the instigation of the congregation, entitled Lumière des Hommes (The Light of Man).....
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Contact us to make an appointment: : Service des archives des petites Sœurs de l’Assomption Céline Hirsch-Poynard 57 rue Violet 75015 Paris 01 40 57 69 23 archivesgenerales@assomption-psa.org