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In 1639, Mother Marie of the Incarnation, two other Ursuline nuns, three Augustinian sisters and a Jesuit priest left France for a mission in New France in what is now the Province of Quebec, Canada. When they arrived in the summer of 1639, they studied the languages of the native peoples and then began to educate the native children. [6]
She is the founder of the Ursuline missions in Montana and Alaska. [3] In 1884 the founding Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, Montana, Jean-Baptiste Brondel, invited the Ursulines to work with the Jesuits at St. Peter's Mission Church, and Mother Mary Amadeus came with five Ursulines she had chosen. They founded a boarding school ...
The Ursuline Monastery of Quebec City (French: Monastère des Ursulines de Québec) was founded by a missionary group of Ursuline nuns in 1639 under the leadership of Mother Marie of the Incarnation, O.S.U. It is the oldest institution of learning for women in North America. [1]
During the German occupation of Warsaw, Górska saved the lives of many Jewish children by smuggling them out of the ghetto, and transferring them to institutions belonging to the Ursuline Sisters, which had branches throughout occupied Poland. [2] The first convent in North America was established in Windsor, Ontario in 1965.
Villa Angela Academy was founded in the mid-1870s, as a boarding school and academy for girls, by the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland on property they had purchased on the southern shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of Euclid Creek. [7] The school moved into a new building in 1972.
Ursuline Sisters can refer to one of several religious institutes: Ursulines, founded in Italy in 1535; Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, established 1605; Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Grey Ursulines), est. 1920 (1908)
The Ursuline Sisters Daughters of Mary Immaculate (Italian: Suore Orsoline Figlie di Maria Immacolata) are members of a Verona-based Catholic congregation of sisters. The main purpose of the congregation is the human and Christian training of young people .
The Ursuline Chapel of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated on Dec. 8, 1917. [3] Although the sisters' work is primarily in education, in October 1918, fifteen went to nearby Camp Zachary Taylor to serve as nurses during the influenza epidemic. The Ursuline campus served as a refuge for people displaced by the Ohio River flood of 1937. [4]