The Daughters of the Holy Heart of Mary (French: Filles du Saint-Cœur de Marie) is a Roman Catholic religious institute, founded in Senegal on May 24, 1858 by Aloyse Kobès. It was the first indigenous religious institute in Africa. [1]
Kobès became the first Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia. [2] The first nuns were Thérèse Sagna and Louise de Saint-Jean, the first African nuns outside Ethiopia. [1]