Ypres house, which is affiliated with the Sisters Oblates of the Canonesses of Saint Victor in Champagne. Augustinian Canonesses of the Mercy of Jesus have their roots in a group who, more than 700 years ago, began serving the needy and distressed in the expanding French fishing port of Dieppe. As of 2014, the community operates a nursing home in Cumbria, and in Liverpool. Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Congregation of Our Lady (CND), instituted in 1597 by Peter Fourier and Alix Le Clerc. Canonesses de Windesheim-Saint Victor In 1997 a public association of the faithful, the Norbertine Association of St. Joseph, was established by the Canons Regular of Premontre of St. Michael's Norbertine Abbey in Orange, California. In 2000 the public association took up the common life in Tehachapi, California. In January 2011 the association was recognized as an autonomous priory of Canonesses Regular of Premontre by the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life, the Abbot General and his council of the Norbertine Order and the diocese of Fresno, California. One of two known communities of Canonesses Regular in the United States, they have grown from the original five foundresses to 49 sisters as of September, 2019. See also Canon (priest) Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, Canons Regular References External links The Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus The Sisters in Jesus the Lord, Canonissae in Jesus Domino, CJD The Canonesses Regular of the Mother of God, France The Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, the English Community The Association of Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre Catholic ecclesiastical titles Members of Catholic orders and societies