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The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known by its initials BVM, is a Roman Catholic religious institute founded in the United States by Mother Mary Frances Clarke. Its founders were Irish Catholics. The BVM currently works in twenty-five U.S. states and three foreign countries.
Mary Frances Clarke, B.V.M. (c. 15 December 1802 – 4 December 1887) was an Irish nun who founded the Catholic order of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Initially started in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , to provide educational opportunities for immigrants' children, the order relocated in the 1840s to Dubuque, Iowa, and ...
Keller, named Evelyn Marie Keller at birth, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 17, 1913, to John Adam Keller and Catherine Josephine (née Sullivan) Keller. [3] [5] She entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1932 [6] [7] and took her vows with that religious congregation in 1940.
Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM (born August 21, 1919), better known as Sister Jean, is an American religious sister of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team at Loyola University Chicago. [1] [2] [3]
Many other groups called Sisters of Charity have also founded and operate educational institutions, hospitals and orphanages: A Sister of Charity of Jesus and Mary (ca. 1900) Sisters of Charity of Australia; Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary; Sisters of Charity of Montreal (also known as Grey Nuns)
Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip of Sweden are parents to the "perfect little quartet.". After the royal couple welcomed their fourth child and first daughter on Feb. 7, they shared the first ...
Holy Angels Academy (HA) was founded in 1892 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs) at 12th Street and Cedar Street (now Kilbourn Avenue) in Milwaukee. In the years after its founding, HA continued to grow. In 1927 the BVMs dedicated an imposing new building on the school's original site.
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