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Some worked in Lithuania in the 1930s and again in the 1990s. In 1949 they adopted their current name Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God to reflect what had become a broader outreach. As of 2015 there were seventy-four members in the United States, Brazil, Bolivia, and Haiti working with children, the homeless, and inmates.
Dominican Sisters of the Heart of Jesus, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Lockport. Monastery of Mary, Mother of Grace, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Lafayette. St. Joseph Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Saint Benedict. Discalced Carmelite Nuns, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Covington, Louisiana.
The Community of Jesus is an ecumenical Christian double monastery in the Benedictine tradition, which is located near Rock Harbor, in Orleans, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. [ 1 ] At present, approximately 225 professed members, together with another fifty children and young people live as households in thirty privately owned, multifamily homes ...
McGuinness, Margaret M. Neighbors and Missionaries: A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine (Fordham Univ Press, 2012) online; Mulderry, Darra D. Educating 'Sister Lucy': The Experiential Sources of the Movement to Improve Higher Education for Catholic Teaching Sisters, 1949-1964." U.S. Catholic Historian (2015) 33#1 pp. 55-79.
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth are a Roman Catholic apostolic congregation of pontifical right, based in the Convent Station area of Morris Township, New Jersey, USA. The religious order was established in 1859 in Newark, New Jersey , following the example of Elizabeth Ann Seton 's community that was founded in 1809 in Emmitsburg ...
Congregation of Xavières (French: Institut La Xavière) is an institute of religious sisters recognized by the Catholic Church on February 4, 1963, during the Second Vatican Council. The institute was founded in France in 1921 by Claire Monestès with the support of Jesuit priest Antonin Eymieu [ 1 ] and is a part of the Ignatian family of ...
Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order (34 C, 2 P) Leaders of Catholic female orders and societies (1 C, 9 P) Monasteries of secular canonesses (6 P)
Sisters of St. Dominic Motherhouse Complex, is a historic convent complex and national historic district at 555 Albany Avenue in North Amityville, Suffolk County, New York. The complex consists of five contributing buildings, a cemetery, and grotto. Rosary Hall (formerly the novitiate for the sisters whose original motherhouse was at Graham and ...