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The Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary, known as the Blue Chapel, is a former monastery in Union City, Hudson County, New Jersey, in the United States. It takes its name from the blue tinted windows that were part of the original chapel.
Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB (born Mary Elizabeth Lancaster, later taking the religious name Mary Wilhelmina of the Most Holy Rosary; April 13, 1924 – May 29, 2019), was an African-American nun from rural Missouri who founded the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles.
The first American Perpetual Rosary monastery was established at the Blue Chapel, Union City, New Jersey, in 1891. In 1896, six of the sisters left Union City to build a convent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [2] [3] The Milwaukee community is cloistered and is referred to as the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary, and is still in operation. [4]
The first Redemptoristines monastery in the United States, Our Mother of Perpetual Help, was established in 1957 on the grounds of the Redemptorists' seminary of Mount St. Alphonsus, in Esopus, New York. When the property was sold, the nuns relocated to Beacon, New York where they share a monastery with the Carmelites.
The cracked coffin that held the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster had “high levels of condensation,” the Catholic News Agency reported. “Despite the dampness, little of her body and ...
Marie-Alphonsine's remains in the Rosary Sisters' convent in Jerusalem. Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, OP (4 October 1843 – 25 March 1927) was a Palestinian Catholic nun who founded the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem (the Rosary Sisters), the first Palestinian religious congregation.
The congregation started work on the monastery in 2020, dubbing it the Montana Rosa Mystica, and asking people to send donations for its construction to Most Holy Rosary House in Jordan, Montana ...
The congregation started work on the monastery in 2020, dubbing it the Montana Rosa Mystica and asking people to send donations for its construction to Most Holy Rosary House in Jordan, Montana ...