Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The College of St. Scholastica (CSS) is a private Benedictine college in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 1912 by a group of pioneering Benedictine Sisters and enrolled about 3,000 students as of 2023. [4] The college offers a liberal arts education and is located on 186 wooded acres overlooking Lake Superior.
The Sisters trace their roots to Saint Walburg Abbey in Eichstätt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Six of them emigrated to St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1857, moving to St. Joseph in 1863. Mother Benedicta Riepp, considered the founder of Benedictine women's communities in the United States, is buried in the monastery cemetery. [3]
Mary Annella Zervas, O.S.B.(born Anna Cordelia Zervas; April 7, 1900 – August 14, 1926) was an American Catholic religious sister who joined the Benedictines at a young age and died at 26 after a three-year battle with pityriasis rubra pilaris.
Saint John's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Collegeville Township, Minnesota, United States, affiliated with the American-Cassinese Congregation.The abbey was established following the arrival in the area of monks from Saint Vincent Archabbey in Pennsylvania in 1856.
Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Nestled amid rolling farmland, the Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica ...
The first actual Benedictine monastery founded was Saint Vincent Archabbey, located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1832 by Boniface Wimmer, a German monk, who sought to serve German immigrants in America. In 1856, Wimmer started to lay the foundations for St. John's Abbey in Minnesota.
Dis-n-Dat, R&B duo of sisters Tishea (Dis) & Tenesia (Dat) Bennett; The Dixie Cups, a girl group, with sisters Barbara Ann & Rosa Lee Hawkins and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson, who had a No. 1 hit "Chapel of Love" in 1964; Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, a 1970s big band- and swing-influenced disco band, formed in the Bronx, New York
In the 11th century, three Benedictine monks, Robert of Molesme, Alberic and Stephen Harding, sought to follow the Rule of St. Benedict in all its fulness. Along with a group of other monks who shared this vision of simplicity, austerity and fraternal life, they went to Cîteaux in Burgundy, where the "New Monastery" was established in March 1098.