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Grey Nuns Convent in Montreal (circa 1880) The congregation was founded when Marguerite d'Youville and three of her friends formed a religious association to care for the poor. They rented a small house in Montreal on 30 October 1738, taking in a small number of destitute persons.
Grey Nuns Motherhouse, now known as the Grey Nuns Building, is a former motherhouse of the Grey Nuns located at 1190 Guy Street, in the Borough of Ville-Marie, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. It is also named Grey Nuns Hospital of Montréal (not to be confused with Grey Nuns' Hospital located south of Place d'Youville). The building was completed in ...
The list of alumnae includes Jeanne Le Ber (1662–1714), the saintly "recluse of Montreal", and Saint Marie-Marguerite d'Youville(1701–1771), foundress of the Grey Sisters at Montreal. During the French Revolution (1789–1799) several French refugees were chaplains to the monastery, the most notable being Abbé L.P. Desjardins, who died in ...
Grey Nuns Convent building seen from Guy Street, Montreal, QC, about 1875 Anonymous About 1880, 19th century Notman photographic Archives - McCord Museum MP-0000.869.4 Le couvent des Soeurs Grises depuis la rue Guy, Montréal, QC, vers 1875 Anonyme Vers 1880, 19e siècle Archives photographiques Notman - Musée McCord
Marguerite d'Youville, SGM (French pronunciation: [maʁɡʁit djuvil]; October 15, 1701 – December 23, 1771) was a French Canadian widow who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the "Grey Nuns".
The company was established in 1983 by the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, known as the Grey Nuns, to direct, support and conduct their health care, elder care and social service systems throughout the United States. Today, Covenant Health Systems serves as sponsor, governance organization and manager of multiple health and elder care related ...
Maria Monk (June 27, 1816 – summer of 1849) was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal.
A Monastery of the Precious Blood was founded in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1898. In 1934 sisters from Manchester opened a house in Portland, Maine. [12] The Portland house closed in 2018, with the remaining two sisters returning to Manchester. [13] [14] Sisters from Manchester founded a monastery in Watertown, New York in 1963. [15]