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In 1889, Archbishop Gross approved construction of St. Mary's Orphanage in Beaverton, Oregon and asked the Sisters to staff it. By June 1891, three Sisters were serving in Sublimity, three were serving in Verboort, Oregon, and all of the other Sisters had moved to Beaverton. The Sisters lived at the orphanage where they cared for sixty children ...
Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist - Franciscan, the sisters have a retreat center in Bridal Veil and they also run the Franciscan Montessori Earth School & St. Francis Academy in Portland [1] Queen of Angels Monastery - Benedictine, Mt. Angel; Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon - Beaverton
The Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, commonly known as the "St. Louis Catholic Sisters" trace their roots to the "Joliet Franciscans", who came to St. Louis, Missouri to assist Polish-speaking immigrants. In 1901 three members of the Joliet Franciscans formed a separate community, which for the first twenty years was known as ...
The full force of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was not felt until the next day, September 8, and began to erode away the sand dunes that surrounded St. Mary's Orphanage. The sisters in charge decided to move the children into the girls' dormitory, as it was newer and stronger (and thus potentially safer) than the boys' dormitory. [9]
Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy, originally the Sacred Heart Convent and Holy Angels Orphanage and previously Mount St. Mary's Convent and Orphan Asylum, and also known as Mount Saint Mary's Academy and Convent, is the only extant original orphanage in California and commemorates the Sisters of Mercy, in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California.
San Michéle, the first protectory for youth, was founded at Rome in 1704 by Pope Clement XI.When John Howard, the English prison reformer (1726–90), visited the institution, he read above the entrance this inscription: "Clement XI, Supreme Pontiff, for the reformation and education of criminal youths, to the end that those who when idle had been injurious to the State, might, when better ...
They established St. John's Infirmary (the predecessor of St. Mary's Hospital) and St. Rose's Orphanage for Girls, both on the east side. [2] In 1877 the Sisters opened the initial St. Vincent's Asylum, with three nuns caring for nine infants in a rented house on the corner of South Fifth and West Virginia Streets. [2]
It was founded by twelve sisters from the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in 1859. It is an all-girls school with approximately 680 students from northern Oregon and southwestern Washington. Since its founding, over 10,000 women have graduated from St. Mary's Academy, the oldest continuously-operating secondary school in Oregon.