Joan Bartlett

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Joan Bartlett
Born(1911-08-01)August 1, 1911
Servite Secular Institute
AwardsO.B.E., D.S.G.

Servite Secular Institute
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During

Red Cross
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In 1941, Bartlett converted to the

spiritual director, a Servite friar.[2]

The Servite Order lent Bartlett £8000 and the Air Raid Distress Fund of London another £3600 to help this project.[1] With this money and other contributions from individual donors, most notably, Albert Oppenheimer (CBE) she purchased a property in The Boltons. It was registered as the Hearth and Home Housing Association, soon known as Servite Housing, and began to operate in 1946. They have since severed their connections with the institute she founded.[2]

The following year the

Canon law. This was a new form of consecrated life which would be lived by celibate people, some of them living in communities, other following independent lives in the world. Bartlett felt drawn to live in this way rather than in the religious congregation she had planned to join. She immediately began began to draw up constitutions for the proposed institute.[2]

The first gathering of other women drawn to this took place in 1952. Gradually the group established itself. In the 1960s connections were made with women in Germany and Italy who had a similar orientation in Servite spirituality. The institute received official approval in 1964 by the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster and they were formally incorporated into the Servite Order.[2]

The institute continued to grow, being spread to other countries and received papal recognition in March 1979, at which time she was made a Dame in the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II. The Constitutions of the Institute received final papal approval in February 1994. Members are now found in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Spain and the United States of America, as well as in the United Kingdom.

Bartlett remained involved in Servite Housing until her death, having devoted the years since her retirement as Director to fund-raising.[2] Independent Catholic News described her as follows: "Joan was a woman of vision, always ahead of her times, and as housing needs changed she went on to any number of imaginative housing projects."[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Obits: Joan Bartlett". The Telegraph. 2 October 2002. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e "The History of the Institute". The Servite Secular Institute. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Remembering Joan Bartlett on Independent Catholic News". 23 September 2002. Retrieved 23 June 2013.

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