| Our 
                        Beginnings  The
                            Sisters of the Good Shepherd form one international
                            congregation ministering in 71 countries on five
                            continents. In the United States, the Sisters are
                                                        spread
                            from east to west in 23 states and also are
                            in Canada. Founded over two hundred years ago in
                            Angers, France, by St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier who
                            believed that God is like a compassionate Shepherd
                            whose love for all is boundless, Good Shepherd Sisters
                            respond to a call to reach out to everyone and help
                            awaken in all peoples a sense of each one's unique
                            worth and inestimable value. | 
                        
 Motherhouse - Angers,
                          France |