Our Congregation is a local (Diocesan) Congregation which was founded on 26 December 1929 when the first three candidates were admitted. It was founded by Bishop Thomas Spreieter, the Benedictine Monk of St Ottilien. The bishop was assisted by Sr M Victorine Mandl, a Benedictine Sister of Tutzing who became the first ‘Mother General’ of this congregation. The official establishment of the Congregation was only achieved when the permission was granted by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome on 5 December 1933 to start a new Congregation and open a Novitiate. This then automatically became the founding day which we celebrate every year. It belongs to the Diocese of Eshowe and has five dependent houses around this Diocese and is limited to it only, for now.
Dependent Houses:
- Ebuhleni Convent ( Contact Person is the local Superior – Sr Raymond Mchunu: 071 297 5779)
- St Francis Convent (contact person is local Superior – Sr Martin Mzizi: 083 969 2473)
- St Alban Convent (contact person is Sr Hildegard Mthembu: 0733330560)
- Ngome Marian Shrine Convent (contact person is local Superior – Sr Fidelis Mangazi: 073 377 8394 0r 076 922 6415).
- Inkamana Convent (contact person is the local Superior – Sr Conradine Mkhize: 072 788 0195).
Twasana Convent is the Mother House and where the Generalate is. The local Superior in the |Mother House is Sr Agnes Mzimela: 072 516 6794. The present Superior General known as the Prioress General in a Benedictine community is: Sr M Charity Zulu: 073350 9938 or 076 227 1896. The Vicarress Genera is Sr Cornelia Chatha and the three Counsellors are Sr Hildegard Mthembu, Sr Theodora Ntuli and Sr Scholastica Mpanza.