Mary Prema Pierick Europe. She returned to India to supervise the tertianship program of the institute, the last stage of training before final religious profession. She succeeded Sister Nirmala Joshi as Superior General on 24 March 2009, heading an institute which had over 5,000 members worldwide at that time. Mary Prema Pierick Sister Mary Prema Pierick, M.C. (born 13 May 1953), is the current Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity of Calcutta, India, the religious institute founded by the Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She was born Mechthild Pierick in a farming community in Reken, Germany. In 1980, after reading the biography
Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in health care (as part of CHRISTUS Health and Dignity Health), education, and social justice. They are also involved in fighting illiteracy and AIDS. The Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio is the largest group of religious women in Texas. The institute was founded in San Antonio in 1869, as a sister house of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Galveston, Texas. In 1869, Bishop Dubuis chose three from the Galveston community, Sister St. Madeleine Chollet, Sister St. Pierre Cinquin, and Sister Agnes Buisson to begin a new house in San Antonio and open the