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“today, I rise to introduce a Concurrent Resolution commemorating the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts in Hawaii. The first Catholic missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands were members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. The Congregation was founded by Pierre Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie in Poitiers, France on Christmas Eve 1800. In 1825, the Congregation responded to a request of Pope Leo XII for missionaries to the Pacific Rim, then known as Oceania. The Sacred Hearts Priests and Brothers arrived in Hawaii in 1827; the Sisters, in 1859. Today, through the missionary zeal of its members, of which a noteworthy exemplar in Hawaii is Blessed Damien de Veuster, the Brothers and Sisters of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary are present in forty countries and on all continents. The Sisters of the Sacred Hearts Pacific Province is the administrative center of communities of Sisters currently serving in Hawaii, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. In observance of the 150th anniversary of the Sisters arrival to Hawaii, I urge my colleagues to support this Resolution recognizing the Sisters' dedication through these years to the education of the children of Hawaii, Massachusetts, California, and New Mexico.”