About Us

The National Center for Transformative Education Marie Eugenie (CENETRA HOTEL) is the work of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Assumption.

The Congregation of the Religious of the Assumption was founded in Paris in 1839 by Ste Marie Eugenie de Jesus (Anne Eugenie Milleret de Brou).

From the start, Marie Eugenie thought of Education as a need of the present time with all the new intelligent methods and all the Catholic germs. She had a desire to be part of a great Catholic movement with all the respect of existing congregations. She conceived of the Church as a united family.

The specificity of Transformative Education is the anticipation of the society to come, as a family, as communities, as a church and as an individual.

For the assumption it is realized in three axes of application:

• The educational apostolic axis, with school activities
• The apostolic andragogical axis, with activities involving adult involvement in the realities of the world of their time
• The axis of spiritual deepening with discernment activities leading to the wisdom of the gospel.

Transformative education builds character, intelligence and will, so that we act according to reason and have reasons to act!

Transformative education aims to give convictions and strengthen roots, to create a tradition to pass on to emerging generations and to inspire future achievements (St. Marie Eugenie de Jésus).

CENETRA is therefore not a closed, isolated, autonomous or decentralized project. It is simply a maturation of the communities of the Assumption throughout the world to mark their presence in today's world through a non-school education, which involves as many people as possible.

This is why CENETRA ME is one of the strategies for implementing the mission and the vision of the charism of the Assumption.

However, CENETRA will not be closed to transformative education activities alone, but will also be open to other activities of welcoming people who need to rest, to train or to be trained, to meet for various motives which do not contradict the Gospel values as well as the values of the Assumption. That said, CENETRA is a transformative education center and a hotel center at the same time.