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Some worked in Lithuania in the 1930s and again in the 1990s. In 1949 they adopted their current name Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God to reflect what had become a broader outreach. As of 2015 there were seventy-four members in the United States, Brazil, Bolivia, and Haiti working with children, the homeless, and inmates.
McGuinness, Margaret M. Neighbors and Missionaries: A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine (Fordham Univ Press, 2012) online; Mulderry, Darra D. Educating 'Sister Lucy': The Experiential Sources of the Movement to Improve Higher Education for Catholic Teaching Sisters, 1949-1964." U.S. Catholic Historian (2015) 33#1 pp. 55-79.
Dominican Sisters of the Heart of Jesus, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Lockport. Monastery of Mary, Mother of Grace, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Lafayette. St. Joseph Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Saint Benedict. Discalced Carmelite Nuns, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Covington, Louisiana.
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Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order (34 C, 2 P) Leaders of Catholic female orders and societies (1 C, 9 P) Monasteries of secular canonesses (6 P)
The Daughters of Mary, Mother of Our Savior are a congregation of Traditional Catholic religious sisters founded in 1984 by Father Clarence Kelly.The motherhouse and novitiate are located in Round Top, New York, in the Catskill Mountains, with additional houses in Melville, New York, and White Bear Lake, Minnesota, where they operate schools and are involved in various forms of charity work.
[13] [14] In the US, the Missionaries of Charity are affiliated with the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, a body of female religious, representing 20% of American religious sisters. They are identified by the wearing of religious habits, and loyalty to church teaching.
Eventually the Thorpe sisters resolved to commit themselves more formally to this service by embracing religious life, and they established the congregation on May 6, 1876, under the leadership of Alice Mary, who took the religious name of Mother Catherine M. Antoninus, O.S.D. She led the congregation for the next twenty years.