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The university was originally established as the Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in 1868 by six members of the Sisters of the Holy Names, a teaching order from Quebec, Canada. They were invited to Oakland by Father Michael King, pastor of Saint Mary's Church to establish a school for girls and to provide means to train future teachers.
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School is a private college-preparatory school for girls located in the historic Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown.Founded in 1799 by the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (also known as the Visitation Sisters), it is one of the oldest continuously-operating schools for girls in the country and the city [3] as well as the oldest Catholic school ...
St. Mary's Convent Girls High School, Ollur, Thrissur, Kerala St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala St. Mary's Convent School, Dewas , Madhya Pradesh
The sisters formerly operated a girls' school in Sewanee—St. Mary's Preparatory School for Girls—which closed at the end of the 1967-1968 school year. The school is now a retreat center for individual and group retreats, in addition to hosting presentations on contemplative prayer.
In this capacity St. Mary's College of Maryland, in partnership with Historic St. Mary's City, [12] [30] [31] also runs the Historical Archaeology Field School [30] which is an internationally recognized institution. The field school has worked on over 300 archaeological dig sites in the St. Mary's City area over the last 40 years.
St. Benedict. Belmont Abbey College was founded in 1876 as St. Mary's College by Benedictine monks from Saint Vincent Archabbey in Pennsylvania. [5] Father Jeremiah O'Connell purchased Caldwell farm and donated the land to the Benedictines, hoping the community would found a Catholic educational institution in the Carolinas. [6]
St. Mary's College of Maryland is located on the original site of Maryland's first colony, St. Mary's City, [4] which was also the first capital of Maryland [1] and is considered to be the birthplace of religious freedom in America. [5] [6] Colonial St. Mary's City was actually only a town and at its peak had between 500 and 600 residents.
Mount St. Mary's University is a private Catholic university in Emmitsburg, Maryland.It has the largest Catholic seminary in the United States. Undergraduate programs are divided between the College of Liberal Arts, the Richard J. Bolte School of Business, and the School of Natural Science and Mathematics.