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In 1945 the name of the congregation was changed to the "Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis". [1] In 1949, the sisters purchased fifteen acres adjacent to their provincial convent, and founded Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights, Ohio. "The Village at Marymount" is on the hospital campus.
The Brothers and Sisters lived in boarding huts nearby. [2] In 1856 Bishop Henni asked the Sisters to help at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, built for German-speaking aspirants to the priesthood. In 1871 the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis was established in La Crosse, Wisconsin. [1]
The Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Eucharist (Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration) was established in 1378 in Switzerland. In 1893 Sister M. John Hau and some companions from the motherhouse at Grimmenstein [45] established St. Francis Convent and Home in Nevada, Missouri. [46]
The Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity is a Catholic religious congregation for women. A third order Regular [not Secular] group, the sisters are not cloistered nuns but active in the world, having historically been primarily involved in teaching, although they have participated in the care of the sick and poor, hospital work, mission work, and other activities.
The Wisconsin Historical Society announced the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis Convent Complex as a historic place.
At 19, Williams entered the Sisters of Saint Francis' convent in Louisiana. When that order disbanded in 1912, she entered the novitiate of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore where she was given the name Sister Mary Theodore. Mother Mary Theodore Williams, foundress of the Handmaids.
The Sisters of St. Francis of Millvale of Mt. Alvernia, Millvale, Pennsylvania was founded by sisters from the Buffalo community. The sisters began their ministries in Pittsburgh in 1865 when sisters Elizabeth Kaufman, Magdalene Hess and Stephen Winkelman were sent to Pittsburgh from Buffalo, N.Y., to establish a hospital for German Catholics ...
The Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration is a papal congregation of the Roman Catholic Church, founded on July 20, 1863, by Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel in Olpe, Germany (sometimes known from the place of their foundation as the Olpe Sisters).