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The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph was founded by Jean-Pierre Médaille (although older accounts attribute this to his brother, Jean Paul). Medaille sought to establish an ecclesiastically approved congregation of women who would profess simple vows, live in a small group, with no specific apostolates and would dress in a common garb of the women of their day.
St. Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament opened St. Ignatius of Loyola School in 1926. The school moved to its current facility in 1967 in Philadelphia. [17] St. Emma's Industrial and Agricultural Institute (later St. Emma Military Academy for Boys) founded on the Belmead Plantation near Powhatan, Virginia in 1897
Mount Saint Joseph Academy, commonly called The Mount, in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, is a Philadelphia-area all-female, Catholic, college preparatory school within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. It was founded in 1858 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph .
She returned to St. Joseph's orphanage in Philadelphia in 1851. By that time, the Sisters of Charity in Maryland had united with the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Sister Mary Gonzaga stayed at the latter order's mother house in Paris from 1855 to 1856, to work on the details of that union. She was back to Philadelphia in 1857. [1]
After Browne's death, services were held, until 1780, at the home of Paul Miller, a sexton at Old St. Joseph's, near today's North Eighth Street and West Hunting Park Avenue. [6] St. Veronica Parish, first chapel and rectory, at Second and Butler Streets Philadelphia. Lithograph, about 1880 New Church of St. Veronica, 1909. Built by Father ...
Alvernia University, Philadelphia Center (branch campus) – Cheltenham Township (Bernardine Sisters of St. Francis) Cabrini University – Radnor Township (Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) Chestnut Hill College – Philadelphia (Sisters of Saint Joseph) Gwynedd Mercy University – Lower Gwynedd Township (Sisters of Mercy)
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A Fitting Response: The History of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis (2 vol. 1992) Quinonez, Lora, and Mary Daniel Turner. The Transformation of American Catholic Sisters (1993) excerpt and text search; Schneider, Mary L. "American Sisters and the Roots of Change: the 1950s." US Catholic Historian (1988): 55-72. JSTOR ...