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Benedictine Sisters of Chicago is a Roman Catholic Benedictine congregation of women. It was founded in 1861 by three sisters of the Benedictine congregation of Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania, who came to Chicago to teach the German-speaking children of St. Joseph's parish. They became an independent congregation in 1872.
By 1948 the orphanage comprised the Lisle Manual Training School for Boys and the Lisle Industrial School for Girls, both of which were managed by the Sisters of St. Benedict [37] and run by the Archdiocese of Chicago. [16] In the 1950s Petru Hall was built as an annex on the east side of the dormitory building. [38]
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Founded in 1902, St. Benedict School in 1950 expanded to include a high school. In February 2017 St. Benedict Preparatory School announced it would be closing its high school. The last graduating class was in June 2019. [1] St. Benedict Preparatory will continue its mission to serve families with Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8 children.
In November 1934 a fire destroyed everything but the stone walls. The sisters closed their girls school, St. Benedict's Academy and converted it to a temporary hospital until a new one could be completed in 1941. [7] The sisters owned and operated the hospital until 1978 when it was turned over to a public-not-for -profit corporation. [8]
St. Benedict's Prep and Delbarton have a shared history that dates back to the Morris County school's founding. In December 1925, St. Mary's Abbey in central Newark purchased 400 acres of what had ...
In 1989, the Sisters opened the school the St. Benedict Education Center in Erie County, which also serves students from Clarion, Crawford, Forest, Venango, and Warren counties. [21] The Sisters also run the Saint Benedict Child Care Center, which originated as a Head Start program run out of the former convent building. In 1969, they expanded ...