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The motherhouse of the congregation is St. Teresa's at Avila-on-Hudson in Germantown, New York. At present, there are approximately 200 Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm who operate 24 homes caring for 5,200 elderly persons. [8]
Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory (January 21, 1893 – January 21, 1984) was an Ireland-born immigrant to the United States.She was a Roman Catholic religious sister who worked as an advocate for the impoverished elderly, founding a new religious congregation for this purpose, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm.
In the U.S. the Sisters have cared for the elderly, since 1929, at St. Agnes Home in Kirkwood, MO, [4] since 1952 at the Carmel Nursing Home in Owensboro, KY, [5] since 1917 at St. Joseph Home for the Aged in Kenosha, WI, since 1951 at Saint Ann's Home in Grand Rapids, MI; [6] and since 1954 at Mount Carmel Home in Corpus Christi, TX.
St. Francis Hospital - Founded and staffed by the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor; operated from 1865 to 1966. St. Francis Hospital (Port Jervis) - Staffed by the Sisters of St. Francis of Hastings-on-Hudson; opened in 1924. St. John Day Nursery - Opened in 1886 at 223 E. 67th Street and staffed by the Sisters of Charity.
The Carmelite Sisters of Charity (Spanish: Hermanas Carmelitas de la Caridad de Vedruna; Latin: Institutum Sororum Carmelitarum a Caritate; abbreviation: C.C.V. or C. a Ch.) is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common.
The Carmelite Sisters of Saint Teresa have their roots in the Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Teresa, a tertiary congregation established in Kerala in the 19th century. The congregation was founded in 1887 by Sister Teresa of St. Rose of Lima, a Carmelite Tertiary who was sent to Ernakulam by Archbishop Leonard Mellano of ...
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In the portrait, he painted Teresa de Ahumada dressed as a Carmelite with the typical brown habit and a white cape of 10 years of age. She would continue to wear the habit until she began the novitiate in 1581 in Convento de San José in Ávila. However, a year before beginning the novitiate, on June 26, 1580, she would lose her father and ...