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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.
"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 the Holy Cross are a diocesan community of religious women [1] who live according to the Rule of St. Francis of Assisi [2] in Northeastern Wisconsin. In essence, the sisters practice "simplicity, hospitality, and prayer that is centered on the Cross of Jesus Christ, the sacred Word of Scripture, and the Holy ...
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.
Wirfs requested a $4 million loan for the project, but because the School Sisters of St. Francis was created by papal order, Wirfs had to appeal to Rome for approval. The hospital opened its doors on July 11, 1951; since 1981, the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, based in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, has owned the hospital. [19]
The Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration is a papal congregation of the Roman Catholic Church, founded on July 20, 1863, by Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel in Olpe, Germany (sometimes known from the place of their foundation as the Olpe Sisters).
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 ...