Thus he established three of these volunteers as a religious congregation under the leadership of a Bavarian woman, Sister Anna Katharina Berger, who had come to Paris already a member of a community of Franciscan Sisters founded by the Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini in Pirmasens.
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Braun, who was a native of Saint-Avold in the Lorraine region, had moved there to meet the spiritual needs of the people of his region who were flocking from the farms to the capital at the height of the Industrial Revolution in France to find work.
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The Motherhouse of the new congregation was established in the London suburb of Chigwell, from which the Sisters are popularly known in England.
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