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Basement crypt where around 300 nuns are buried. In the basement there is a crypt in which 276 people are buried, 232 of whom were Grey Nuns who had lived at the motherhouse. It is held in trust for the sisters, who are permitted to enter it. The crypt is off limits to students and others, but can be viewed through a window in a locked door. [2 ...
Marguerite d'Youville, SGM (French pronunciation: [maʁɡʁit djuvil]; October 15, 1701 – December 23, 1771) was a French Canadian widow who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the "Grey Nuns".
The Sisters of Charity of Montreal, formerly called The Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal and more commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal, is a Canadian religious institute of Roman Catholic religious sisters, founded in 1737 by Marguerite d'Youville, a young widow.
The Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Elizabeth (CSSE) was founded by an association of young ladies established by Dorothea Klara Wolff, in connection with the sisters, Mathilde and Maria Merkert, and Franziska Werner, in Nysa (Prussian Silesia), to tend in their own homes, without compensation, helpless sick persons who could not or would not be received into the hospitals.
Jun. 4—OGDENSBURG — Three Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart from the Diocese of Ogdensburg are celebrating jubilees this year, totaling 210 years of service. This year also marks the 100th ...
Saint Boniface Cathedral and the Grey Nuns' Convent in 1858. The first Grey Nuns who lived in this house arrived in 1844, and lived with Bishop Norbert Provencher until the house had been started. The four women moved into the house in December 1846, at which time only the exterior of the first floor and the floor of the second floor above the ...
When Hurricane Ian’s storm surge breached the eight foot walls of the San Damiano Monastery of St. Clare in Fort Myers Beach where two parish priests and four cloistered nuns sheltered, they ...
Aside from being the only nun teaching regularly at Erie Catholic schools, the 73-year-old Fusco is also one of the system's oldest teachers. When the subject is mentioned, Horan interjects, 'Don ...