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The two received permission to travel to Rome, where Pope Pius X granted their request to found a new society on June 29, 1911. [1] [16]Founder Mary Josephine Rogers, second from right in the front row, with the first 'Teresians' – front row: Mary Louise Wholean, Anna Maria Towle, Sara Sullivan; Back Row: Mary Augustine Dwyer, Nora Shea, Margaret Shea, at Maryknoll in 1913.
Eventually, this was shortened to "Maryknoll". The Maryknoll Society was the first Catholic missionary society in the United States; up until then the United States was considered mission territory. [1] The Maryknoll Mission Center and Museum is located in Ossining. [2] Maryknoll has its own Post Office and zip code (10545). [3]
John William Comber, M.M. (March 12, 1906 – March 27, 1998) was an American Catholic missionary who served as the superior general of the Maryknoll Society in the United States from 1956 to 1966. He was named the titular bishop of Foratiana in 1959
The Maryknoll Sisters, (formerly the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic/Teresians) [1] are an institute of Catholic religious sisters founded in the village of Ossining, Westchester County, New York, in 1912, six months after the 1911 creation of the Maryknoll community of missionary brothers and fathers.
Maryknoll (abbreviation M.M.) or, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, is a Roman Catholic group of men and women dedicated to missionary service based in the United States. The men are formed as a Society of Apostolic Life of American citizens, while the women are an international religious institute .
Father Walsh In 1911 the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America was established. They are known today as the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. [4] They set up their head office in New York. [4] Rogers was chosen by Father Walsh in 1912 to take lead of the women that had come forward to help in his foreign mission society.
Thomas Frederick Price, MM (August 19, 1860 - September 12, 1919) was the American co-founder of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, better known as the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. [ 1 ]
Patrick James Byrne, M.M. (October 26, 1888 – November 25, 1950) was an American-born Catholic missionary and Bishop.As a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll), he was assigned for missions in Korea and Japan.