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"Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia" were also sent to Buffalo, New York in response to the plea of the Redemptorist priests to serve the people of the rapidly growing city. The community in Buffalo became a separate congregation in the autumn of 1863, the Sisters of St. Francis Third Order Regular of Buffalo (Williamsville Franciscans). [68]
Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota, a Roman Catholic religious congregation for women founded in 1877 in the Diocese of Winona; Sisters of St. Francis, any of a number of other religious congregations that are part of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a third order within the Franciscan movement of the Catholic Church School ...
The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi is a Catholic religious congregation for women founded in 1849. The motherhouse is in St. Francis, Wisconsin, in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The Sisters share their original founders with daughter congregations the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist.
The Sisters of St. Francis of Millvale of Mt. Alvernia, Millvale, Pennsylvania was founded by sisters from the Buffalo community. The sisters began their ministries in Pittsburgh in 1865 when sisters Elizabeth Kaufman, Magdalene Hess and Stephen Winkelman were sent to Pittsburgh from Buffalo, N.Y., to establish a hospital for German Catholics ...
The Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George exercise their charisms through serving the Church in different apostolic works, including health care, education, child care, care of the elderly, parish and diocesan office work, household services in bishops’ households, and priest retirement homes, and within their own convents and house ...
School Sisters of St. Francis; Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota; Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi; Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville; Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity; Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration; Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross; Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George
Interior of St. Joseph Chapel, Milwaukee. The School Sisters of St. Francis (abbreviated SSSF) are an international religious congregation of Catholic sisters, part of the Third Order of Saint Francis, founded in 1874 in New Cassel, Wisconsin. The congregation’s mission covers the United States, Europe, Latin America and India.
The Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity is a Catholic religious congregation for women. A third order Regular [not Secular] group, the sisters are not cloistered nuns but active in the world, having historically been primarily involved in teaching, although they have participated in the care of the sick and poor, hospital work, mission work, and other activities.