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The Mount Saint Joseph Junior College for Women operated between 1925 and 1950 in Maple Mount, Kentucky, with the Ursulines offering co-educational extension courses at Owensboro. The Ursulines merged their extension courses with Mount Saint Joseph Junior College in 1950, creating the co-educational Brescia University that remains in operation.
University of St. Francis (Joliet, Illinois) - Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate Villa Maria College ( Buffalo, New York ) - Felician Sisters Viterbo University ( La Crosse, Wisconsin ) - Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Dorothy Kazel, OSU (June 30, 1939 – December 2, 1980), was an American Ursuline religious sister and missionary to El Salvador.On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries – Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and laywoman Jean Donovan – by members of the military of El Salvador.
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 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 .
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.
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]
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)