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Visit Assisi Heights Tours of Assisi Heights are available on Mondays and Thursdays at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 1:30 pm. Register early, as tour group size is limited. Preregistration is required at least 1 day in advance. No fee is required however, donations are appreciated! Call 507-282-744 ...
Welcome! The Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota, a Roman Catholic congregation for women religious, was founded in 1877 by Mother Mary Alfred Moes. The Congregation’s headquarters are located at Assisi Heights in Rochester, Minnesota.
Assisi Heights is the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Francis, who founded Saint Marys Hospital. The Wilson House was the home of an early Mayo Clinic physician.
The Assisi Heights Spirituality Center provides spiritual and educational resource programs which reflect the mission of the Sisters of Saint Francis “to be a compassionate presence for peace in our world, striving for justice and reverence for all creation” by providing a place of hope, prayer, reflection and enrichment.
Assisi Heights, modeled after the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, was dedicated as the motherhouse for the Sisters of Saint Francis on October 4, 1955. The Sisters of Saint Francis have been a part of the history of Rochester since the late 1870s when they arrived in the area.
Situated on 100 acres and home to the Sisters of Saint Francis. Visitors are welcomed to an ornate lobby with slate floor, Italian marble columns, and hand-blown stained glass windows from Germany. Under the leadership of Mother Alfred Moes, the sisters were instrumental in establishing Saint Marys Hospital.
The motherhouse, which is in Rochester, Minnesota, is called Assisi Heights. In 1876, Sister Mary Alfred Moes, along with her birth sister, Sister Barbara (Catherine) Moes, and 23 other Franciscan Sisters from Joliet, Illinois, came to Rochester, Minnesota, to establish Our Lady of Lourdes School.