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The Ursuline Chapel of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated on Dec. 8, 1917. [3] Although the sisters' work is primarily in education, in October 1918, fifteen went to nearby Camp Zachary Taylor to serve as nurses during the influenza epidemic. The Ursuline campus served as a refuge for people displaced by the Ohio River flood of 1937. [4]
6944 E. 46th St, Indianapolis Founded in 1950 [47] St. Luke the Evangelist 7575 Holliday Dr. E, Indianapolis Founded in 1961 [48] St. Matthew the Apostle 4100 E. 56th St, Indianapolis Founded in 1958, current church dedicated in 1986 [49] St. Pius X 7200 Sarto Dr, Indianapolis Founded in 1955 [50] St. Simon the Apostle 8155 Oaklandon Rd ...
Ursuline Convent, Dallas, Texas (postcard, circa 1901–1907) Ursuline Convent, Toledo, Ohio. Ursuline secondary education schools are found across the United States and other countries. The first school was Ursuline Academy, began in 1727 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the oldest all-girls school in the country.
In May 1861 Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly, S.P., Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, sent Sisters to staff military hospitals in Indianapolis and Vincennes, Indiana. They also tended patients at the Confederate prison located in Indianapolis, which held at one time 7,000 prisoners.
Holy Cross parish, the predecessor to Saint John the Evangelist, is the oldest Catholic parish in Indianapolis and in Marion County, Indiana. [2] [3] It is considered the mother of the Catholic parishes in Indianapolis, and played an important role in development of the Catholic Church in the city. [4]
During the German occupation of Warsaw, Górska saved the lives of many Jewish children by smuggling them out of the ghetto, and transferring them to institutions belonging to the Ursuline Sisters, which had branches throughout occupied Poland. [2] The first convent in North America was established in Windsor, Ontario in 1965.
In 2009, in conjunction with the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown, the Sisters of the Humility of Mary sponsor Dorothy Day House, a hospitality house offering meals, showers, and respite for the poor and unemployed. Opened in 2010, Opportunity House in Garfield Heights, houses young men with diagnosed disabilities who have aged out of foster care ...
Ursuline Sisters can refer to one of several religious institutes: Ursulines, founded in Italy in 1535; Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, ...