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The St. Benedict's Convent and College Historic District consists of 14 buildings, two other structures, and five objects built between 1882 and the late 1920s. The district was nominated for representing the impact and growth of the world's largest Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict community.
The Monastery and Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, a Roman Catholic monastery in Union City that closed in 1980. Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Union City. Newark Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Newark. St. Paul's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located near Newton.
Villa Madonna Academy ("VMA") is a private, Roman Catholic K-12 school in Villa Hills, Kentucky. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington and founded by the Benedictine Sisters Villa Madonna Academy opened in the Collins House, which housed both students and teachers. Ten boarders transferred from St. Walburg Academy in Covington.
A German immigrant, Gier had designed St. Mary's Church in Mount Angel, and may have become known to the nuns during their time in Oregon. [2] Construction began in 1919 and was completed in 1924. Given the labor shortage in the area following World War I, some of the resident nuns helped quarry and transport the stone to the building site. [2]
She also authorized the staffing by Sisters of St. Agnes of Leo House for German Catholic immigrants in NYC in 1889. [4] Mother Agnes served as the leader of the Congregation until her death in 1905. In 1870, Father Francis Haas became the spiritual director of the community and assisted in revising the original rule.
"The growth and decline of the population of Catholic nuns cross-nationally, 1960-1990: A case of secularization as social structural change." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1996): 171-183. JSTOR 1387084; Fialka, John J. Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America (New York: St. Martin Press, 2003), popular journalism.
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Maryknoll Academy, (now Maryhill College) a co-educational primary and secondary school, was founded in 1938 initially name as Lucena Catholic School in the heart of Lucena (near St. Ferdinand Cathedral Parish), in Quezon Province, Philippines.