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The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth are a Roman Catholic apostolic congregation of pontifical right, based in the Convent Station area of Morris Township, New Jersey, USA. The religious order was established in 1859 in Newark, New Jersey , following the example of Elizabeth Ann Seton 's community that was founded in 1809 in Emmitsburg ...
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St. Catherine of Sienna Convent; St. Joseph Parish Complex; St. Leo Church (New York City) St. Mary of the Angels Motherhouse Complex (Amherst, New York) San José de la Laguna Mission and Convento; Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament; St. Mary's Convent; St. Nilus Skete
So, how do you take the first step in exploring whether to join the convent? Triona Adams, who joined the Benedictine order at age 26, said in the Daily Mail , that the process was a lot like dating.
St. Mary's Church was chosen to be the cathedral of the new diocese. Bishop Michael J. O'Farrell was consecrated on Cardinal John McCloskey at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and enthroned in St. Mary's on November 17, 1881. The gymnasium and convent were built around 1900. [4] A new large Casavant Brothers organ was installed in 1948. [5]
The convent housed a number of important relics, including those of the True Cross and fragments of a bone of Saint Dominic. [ 7 ] The landscaped grounds encompass 1.4 acres (5,700 m 2 ) and are enclosed by a high stone wall creating an oasis in the densely populated urban neighborhood which surrounds it.
Convent Station is an unincorporated community located within Morris Township, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [2] The community is named after the Convent Station railroad station that was constructed along the Morris and Essex Lines during the 1870s.
"The growth and decline of the population of Catholic nuns cross-nationally, 1960-1990: A case of secularization as social structural change." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1996): 171-183. JSTOR 1387084; Fialka, John J. Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America (New York: St. Martin Press, 2003), popular journalism.