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School Sisters of Notre Dame is a worldwide religious institute of Roman Catholic sisters founded in Bavaria in 1833 and devoted to primary, secondary, and post-secondary education. Their life in mission centers on prayer, community life and ministry.
This article is a list of School Sisters of Notre Dame school and college alumni. The alumni are listed as follows: Name – occupation / significance – school; Puerto Rican-American actor and film producer Benicio del Toro was educated by the School Sisters of Notre Dame at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Karolina Gerhardinger (20 June 1797 – 9 May 1879) (also known as Mother Maria Theresia of Jesus) was a German Roman Catholic religious sister who founded the School Sisters of Notre Dame. [1] Gerhardinger served as an educator in Bavaria until the establishment of her order, which provided free education to the poor and soon expanded in ...
Saint Clare School was founded in 1856 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and is ... After more than 150 years of ministry, the Sisters transferred control of the ...
Monica Baldwin – British author; wrote I Leap Over The Wall: A Return to the World after twenty-eight Years in a Convent; Wendy Becket – British former nun, television presenter, and art historian; was a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur from 1946–1970 before leaving due to ill health and becoming a consecrated virgin and hermit
She returned to the United States in 1893 and three years later, following a religious calling she had felt since she was a young girl, she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame under a new religious name, Mary Stanisia. She spent the next three years in the novitiate of the religious
Margaret Ellen Traxler, SSND, (March 11, 1924 – February 12, 2002) was a prominent American Religious Sister with the School Sisters of Notre Dame and a prominent women's rights activist. [1] She was also a leader in developing institutions to help poor women in the city of Chicago .
Born on June 7, 1931, in Dayton, Ohio, but naturalized Brazilian, [2] she entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur community in 1948 and professed final vows in 1956. From 1951 to 1966, she taught elementary school classes at St. Victor School in Calumet City, Illinois, St. Alexander School in Villa Park, Illinois and Most Holy Trinity School in Phoenix, Arizona.