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Nancy Pfister was born on July 4, 1956 [1] in Orofino, Idaho.She was raised in Basalt, Colorado, and attended Basalt High School.Nancy was the daughter of Art Pfister, who made a fortune when he turned his family cattle ranch into the Buttermilk Ski Resort in 1958.
The Sisters of the Presentation of Mary (PM) are a religious congregation in the Latin Rite branch of the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1796 at Thueyts in the Ardèche department of south-central France , by Anne-Marie Rivier (1768–1838); originally, the congregation was devoted to the education of young girls.
On 16 January 1899, St Joseph's School was opened with 65 children attending. The sisters were led by Mary Paul Boylson. [32] In 1911 the Convent houses of Launceston and Hobart amalgamated, led by Mother Mary Xavier Dooley. She was born in Tasmania to Alice and James Dooley, and she was educated at St Mary's College, Hobart. [32]
On August 25, 1828, the Lemarchand sisters took vows. Fr. Fleury composed the rule of the new community, and with just her and her sister as members, "Filles de Sainte-Marie" (The Daughters of Saint Mary; later the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation) was founded. [5]
Mary Augustine Giesen (December 6, 1860 - February 25, 1950), founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville which founded and operated St. Francis Hospital in Maryville, Missouri. She was born in Union Hill, Minnesota .
The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary are a Roman Catholic centralized religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women founded by Mother Mary of the Passion (born Hélène Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville, 1839–1904) at Ootacamund, then British India, in 1877. The missionaries form an international religious ...
The Sisters of the Humility of Mary is a Roman Catholic religious congregation, founded at Dommartin-sous-Amance, France, in 1855. The community immigrated to the United States in 1864, and established themselves near New Bedford, Pennsylvania. This community is known as the Sisters of the Humility of Mary and is based at Villa Maria, Pennsylvania.
Mother Mary Theodore Williams, foundress of the Handmaids. Around that time, a bill in the Georgia legislature proposed to forbid white teachers from instructing black children. It threatened the closure of schools co-founded by Ignatius Lissner in Georgia and staffed by Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. When the two African ...