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Sister Gertrud Leupi OSB before 1900. Gertrud Leupi OSB, (1 March 1825 – 26 March 1904) was a Swiss Benedictine and founder of monasteries.She founded the Maria Rickenbach Monastery, Switzerland, the Yankton Benedictine, South Dakota, and the Marienburg monastery, Wikon, Switzerland.
Mount Marty University is in Yankton, South Dakota, a town of 15,000 people. Located on the bluffs of the Missouri River , the 80-acre campus has a mix of modern and historic buildings. The university also has locations in Watertown and Sioux Falls .
In 1889, St. Joseph's Convent was established in Yankton where the sisters had purchased an empty school building next door to the Bishop's residence. [4] In 1897, at the request of Bishop Thomas O'Gorman of Sioux Falls, the sisters opened Sacred Heart Hospital, which in 1998 became affiliated with the Presentation Health System. [5]
Avera came into existence when two orders of religious women—the Benedictine Sisters of Yankton, South Dakota, [6] and the Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen, South Dakota [7] —merged their Catholic health care systems into a single entity.
After graduation, Marty entered the Benedictine novitiate at age 20; he took his final vows on May 29, 1855, assuming the name Brother Martin Marty. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Benedictine Order by Bishop Johann Peter Mirer in Switzerland on September 14, 1856. [2] [3] In 1859, he was assigned a professorship of moral theology.
In 2021 the Benedictines bought a land to build a new monastery of St. Joseph with a Fathers Shrine. The nuns moved into the priory in 2024. In the same year, Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles expanded outside of the US, after one of the sisters was refused a green card and was sent to stay in Europe with two another nuns.
Yankton is a city in and the county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States.It became a city in 1889. The population was 15,411 at the 2020 census, making it the 7th most populous city in South Dakota, [8] and it is the principal city of the Yankton Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the entirety of Yankton County and which had an estimated population of 23,297 as of ...
Benedictine church in Warsaw's New Town, depicted by Bellotto. Benedictines are thought to have arrived in the Kingdom of Poland in the 11th-century. One of the earliest foundations is Tyniec Abbey on a promontory by the Vistula river. The Tyniec monks led the translation of the Bible into Polish vernacular.