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The now vacant St. Mary Academy seen from West Elm Avenue in Monroe The Mother House on the IHM campus as seen up close. The beginnings of the institute came about in 1845 shortly after Father Louis Florent Gillet, C.Ss.R., arrived in Monroe, Michigan, to become the pastor of St. Mary Parish.
The Servite Order, officially known as the Order of Servants of Mary (Latin: Ordo Servorum Beatae Mariae Virginis; abbreviation: OSM), is one of the five original mendicant orders in the Roman Catholic Church. It includes several branches of friars (priests and brothers), contemplative nuns, a congregation of religious sisters, and lay groups.
The Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick, are a Roman Catholic religious institute of women founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1851 and dedicated to the care of the sick, poor, both in clinics, hospices and through home health nursing. They were founded by Maria Soledad Torres y Acosta who was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970.
The congregation, given the name "Handmaids", in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, quickly spread to other cities in Spain, and by 1921 the congregation had communities in other countries as well, in Italy Argentina, England, Peru and Cuba. In 1926 the congregation made foundations in Bolivia, Chile, and the US.
In the great houses of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the housekeeper could be a woman of considerable power in the domestic arena. [citation needed] The housekeeper of times past had her room (or rooms) cleaned by junior staff, her meals prepared and laundry taken care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall.
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary were founded at Monroe, Michigan, U.S.A. on 28 November 1845 by Louis Florent Gillet, for the work of teaching. In 1856 an independent mother-house was established at Villa Maria, Westchester County, Pennsylvania, and later a third at Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Mar. 11—PLATTSBURGH — The Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate was founded in the Byzantine-Ukrainian Catholic Rite 130 years ago in Western Ukraine. It is through these Religious that the ...
Disciples of Jesus through Mary, living in Marian-Trinitarian communion and serving on ecclesial family teams in areas of deepest apostolic need. While in the seminary , Father Flanagan realized that organizations where people work as a team, recognizing and accepting individual talents, are the ones which are most successful.