2024-08-16 00:00:00
For the second time in its history, the Religious of the Apostolate of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Apostoline Sisters) have been forced to leave Cuba, this time due to a lack of new vocations.
The Spanish priest Valentín Salinero founded the Religious Apostolate of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Havana (Cuba) in 1891. They are currently present in Spain, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
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In Cuba, the community had houses and schools in seven cities. In 1961, however, the communist regime of Fidel Castro expelled the schools and forced the nuns to leave the island for the first time.
In 1998, the historic visit of Pope Saint John Paul II took place and due to the improvement of relations between the regime and the Vatican, the Apostolic Sisters were allowed back to the region of Matanzas, from where they expanded to the town of Los Arabos and La Havana. , in Vedado Sacred Heart parish.
However, the community has only two nuns in the country and that is not enough, so they have to leave Cuba again.
“The situation of our community at this moment is that we do not have a third sister who can come with us and the mission here is very strong and wonderful,” said sisters Isabel and Serapia to EWTN Noticias.
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