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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.
As of 2020, the congregation consists of over 900 sisters in 100 communities in 14 countries on five continents: Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, Poland, Tanzania, Ukraine, Bolivia and Russia. The motherhouse and shrine of St. Ursula Ledóchowska is located in Pniewy. [1] The generalate is in ...
St. Louis, Missouri Founder, Sisters of Saint Mary (now known as Franciscan Sisters of Mary) St. Louis: Heroic Virtues 1881 Caspar Rehrl 31 December 1809 Salzburg, Austria 3 September 1881 Barton, Wisconsin: Diocesan Priest; Founder, Sisters of Saint Agnes: Milwaukee: Heroic Virtues 1886 Mary Hardey (rel. name: Mary Aloysia) 8 December 1809
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, established 1605; Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Grey Ursulines), est. 1920 (1908)
She is the founder of the Ursuline missions in Montana and Alaska. [3] In 1884 the founding Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, Montana, Jean-Baptiste Brondel, invited the Ursulines to work with the Jesuits at St. Peter's Mission Church, and Mother Mary Amadeus came with five Ursulines she had chosen. They founded a boarding school ...
First Church of Christ, Scientist, is an historic Christian Science church edifice located at 475 North Kingshighway Boulevard, corner of Westminster Place, in St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1903–1904, it was designed as a stone building in the Classical Revival style of architecture by Edward Gordon Garden of Mauran, Russell & Garden and was ...
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]
In December 1854, four Ursuline nuns arrived in Toledo, Ohio. Several days after their arrival from nearby Cleveland, Ohio, they began to operate classes on Cherry Street in downtown Toledo. These classes were offered roughly 200 students, ranging in grade level.