Behold the Handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to your word.

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The Congregation of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus (H.H.C.J) was founded by Mother Mary Charles Magdalen, a Religious Sister of Charity, who came to Nigeria in 1923 at the invitation Bishop Joseph Shanahan (CSSP) of the Vicariate of Southern Nigeria.

Mother Mary Charles Magdalen lived out the preaching of being all things to all people she engaged in any ministry that would uplift the standard of life of the people she served. Her desire for an indigenous Religious Congregation was fulfilled when four of the young women she taught in St. Joseph's Convent School, Calabar, Nigeria expressed the desire to become Religious Sisters.