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In 1865, they opened St. Joseph Academy. The school building at Cass St. and Chicago Avenue served as the convent and also accommodated boarding students. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the school, and in 1872, they re-established the academy at Hill and Orleans Streets under the name "Saints Benedict and Scholastica Academy". [4]
An August 27, 2015 article by the Chicago Tribune refers to the Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Schools as the largest private school system in the United States. [ 1 ] A wave of school closures after the 2014-2015 school year caused over 200 employees to change jobs and over 1,200 pupils to change schools.
Historian Joseph Mannard has suggested that there was a "convent revolution" in Antebellum America. The number of orders and sisters grew rapidly. In 1830 there were only 10 orders in the U.S, with under 500 sisters. By 1860 45 orders had been added and there were over 5,000 sisters.
The Sisters have served at St. John's Parish and School in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx for 100 years. They had a convent on Godwin Terrace opposite the original school building. They also conducted the Bethany Retreat and Spiritual Center in Highland Mills. As of 2021, the congregation is active in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. [37]
After graduating from high school in 1937, she entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary convent in Iowa. In 1941, by then a sister, she returned to teach in California. [ 5 ] Sister Jean completed her B.A. at Mount St. Mary's College (now Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles ) in 1949 and M.A. at Loyola University of Los ...
Notable educators among the Sisters were Mother Mary Catherine Kenny, Mother Camillus and Mother Regis. While St. John's School closed in 2020, [9] the RJM Sisters currently live in Yonkers, NY, and the Family of Jesus and Mary, [10] a group of sisters and lay associates, meets monthly at St. John's parish life center (which is their former ...
In the nineteenth century, the RHSJ also established an Hotel Dieu and convent school in New Brunswick at each of three towns: Tracadie (1868), Chatham (1869), and Saint-Basile (1873). The sisters helped establish medical and nursing care in these communities, as well as schools for the education of children.
A small group of Mercy Sisters arrived in Chicago in 1846, led by Frances Warde, Catherine McAuley's closest friend. Within weeks, they opened a "select school" that became St. Francis Xavier Academy for Females, the first school chartered in the city of Chicago. The course of study covered primary, secondary and collegiate levels.