L'Antiquaille

The L'Antiquaille is now a cultural center and holds in its undercroft a museum dedicated to telling the story of the early Christian martyrs of the city. Lyon was the capital of Roman Gaul and the site of the first Christian foundation in the region. Visit their website: https://www.antiquaille.fr/ . The Antiquaille is located at 49 Montee Saint Barthelemy, 69005 Lyon France.

L'Antiquaille was a hospital, staffed in the 19th century by the Hospital Sisters, a group of semi-lay and semi-religious women. (Church law recognized as "religious" only those nuns who oberserved enclosure.) They had no local superior, and formed community in the hospital in which they worked. They were bound by religious rule, and were under the guidance of the head chaplain and control of the hospital administration.

Mother Angelique Hiver was superior of the Monastery of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament from which the first Incarnate Word Sisters came to Texas. She herself had spent seven years as a Hospital Sister in the Antiquaille, and played a critical role in helping to recruit and form women for the mission in Texas.