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Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex, or Felician Sisters Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent Chapel and Convent, is a historic Roman Catholic convent located at Cheektowaga in Erie County, New York. It is included in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo .
The women, aged 69 to 99, were all members of a Felician Sisters convent in Livonia, Michigan 13 Religious Sisters Have Died From COVID-19 at a Single Convent in Michigan Skip to main content
Blessed Mary Angela, foundress of the Felician sisters Chapel (1936) of the Felician sisters in Livonia, Michigan. The Felician Sisters, in full Congregation of Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Assisi (abbreviated CSSF), is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of and live in common.
Convents share some of the same health vulnerabilities as nursing homes, the hardest-hit sector in the U.S. in terms of COVID-19 deaths.
The Congregation of Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Assisi, also known as the Felician Sisters, was founded in 1855 by Sophia Truszkowska in Warsaw. There are 1800 sisters, of whom 700 serve in the North American Province. Other provinces are based in Kraków, Przemyśl, Warsaw, and Curitiba, Brazil. They ...
The Felician Sisters originated in Poland and came to the United States in 1874, which became its main base. The sisters provided social mobility for young Polish women. Although the congregation was involved in the care of orphans, the aged, and the sick, teaching remained its primary concern. [37]
Felician Sisters convent – 46 Cornell Street, built 1934, now the Saint John Paul II Parish Center; and; rectory – 73 Reid Street, built 1940–41, Georgian style. [2] The church is a T-shaped brick building on a foundation of cut limestone. A transept was added in 1912. It features an engaged bell tower with pyramidal roof and finials. [4]
In 1921, a convent was built for the Felician Sisters who ran the school; seven years later, a high school was constructed. [2] By the late 1940s, St. Stanislaus was the largest Polish parish school in Michigan. [2]