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Nazareth House in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA is not associated with the congregation.. The Catholic order Les Religieuses de Nazareth ("Sisters of Nazareth"), based in Rome and with convents in Nazareth and Shefa-Amr in Israel, is not associated with the London-based "Sisters of Nazareth".
The Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (Latin: Congregatio Sororum Sacrae Familiae de Nazareth) are a Catholic religious institute founded in Rome in 1875 by Mother Franciszka Siedliska. They use the postnominals CSFN and are an apostolic, international congregation, located on four continents and in thirteen countries.
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN) is a Roman Catholic order of religious sisters. It was founded in 1812 near Bardstown, Kentucky, when three young women responded to Bishop John Baptist Mary David's call for assistance in ministering to the needs of the people of the area.
Around 1922 Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth arrived from Chicago to serve Lithuanian immigrants in the Pittsburgh area. With the assistance of the "Millvale Franciscans", they transitioned to become a separate Franciscan community known as the "Lithuanian Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi".
Maria Franciszka Siedliska, CSFN (12 November 1842 – 21 November 1902), also known by her religious name Maria of Jesus the Good Shepherd, was a Polish Catholic founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions, were a group of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth executed by the Gestapo in August 1943 in occupied Poland (present-day Novogrudok, Belarus). They were beatified as martyrs by Pope John Paul II on 5 March 2000. [2]
In the year 1857, after the citizens of Shefa-ʻAmr saw how much the Sisters of Nazareth convent in Nazareth had helped the people of that city, they contacted the convent's Sister Hilo with an offer to contribute a piece of land in the center of Shefa-ʻAmr containing the ruins of a 4th-century church for a new convent to be built. Sister Hilo ...
St. Vincent Orphanage, for girls, was opened in 1832 in Louisville, Kentucky, by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. [1] It was first located at 443 South 5th Street until 1836, then moved to the corner of Wenzel and Jefferson Streets from 1836 to 1892, the present site of Bellarmine University from 1892 to 1901, [2] and 2120 Payne Street to 1955, the year of the merger with St. Thomas Orphanage.