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St. Rose of Viterbo Convent is the motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, an American religious congregation, which is located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The convent is dedicated to Rose of Viterbo, a 13th-century Franciscan tertiary who was a noted mystic and street preacher in Italy who died while still a teenager. [1]
The house was originally built for New York native Andrew W. Shephard. [1] Norwegian immigrant Mons Anderson purchased it in 1861. Anderson would add onto the house in 1878. Following his death, it was sold to the YWCA in 19
In 1873, Mother Antonia asked the remaining sisters in Milwaukee to relocate to La Crosse, although 37 choose to continue their work in seminary ministry and split off to form the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi. Mother Antonia's community in La Crosse thus became known as the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. [2] [4] [5]
In 1871 the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis was established in La Crosse, Wisconsin. [1] In 1873, Mother Antonia, believing that Seminary work was not an appropriate ministry for her sisters, asked the sisters in Milwaukee to discontinue that work. Thirty-seven sisters chose to remain in Seminary ministry.
A pair of one-story Prairie Style bungalows, nearly mirror images, designed by Percy Bentley of La Crosse and built in 1913 [50] for friends Chase and Wohlhuter. Chase was a dentist and Wohlhuter managed the La Crosse Theater. [51] 19: Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Passenger Depot: Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Passenger ...
La Crosse (/ l ə ˈ k r ɒ s / ⓘ lə-KROSS) [6] is a city in and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. [7] La Crosse's population was 52,680 as of the 2020 census. [2]
Marriage counseling originated in Germany in the 1920s as part of the eugenics movement. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first institutes for marriage counselling in the United States began in the 1930s, partly in response to Germany's medically directed, racial purification marriage counselling centres.
November 21, 1938) [2] was an American teenager who mysteriously disappeared on October 24, 1953, from La Crosse County, Wisconsin. [3] Her disappearance sparked a search involving 2,000 people. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In the first year following her disappearance, investigators questioned more than 3,500 people.