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The "Sisters of Saint Francis of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary", commonly known as the Sisters of St. Francis (Clinton, Iowa), was founded in Kentucky in 1867 by Dom Benedict Berger, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey, to teach in the schools of the territory for which the abbey had the pastoral care, and approved by the Rt. Rev ...
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]
Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota; Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi; Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville; Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity; Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration; Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross; Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George; Sisters of St. Joseph of the ...
The Third Order of Saint Francis is a third order in the Franciscan tradition of Christianity, founded by the medieval Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi.. Francis founded the Third Order, originally called the Brothers and Sisters of Penance, in 1221, to accommodate men and women who, either from already being in consecrated life as hermits, or from being married, were ineligible to ...
Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota, a Roman Catholic religious congregation for women founded in 1877 in the Diocese of Winona; Sisters of St. Francis, any of a number of other religious congregations that are part of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a third order within the Franciscan movement of the Catholic Church School ...
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 Society of Saint Francis (SSF) is an international Franciscan religious order within the Anglican Communion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the main recognised Anglican Franciscan order, but there are also other Franciscan orders in the Anglican Communion .
Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist; Franciscan Sisters of Mary; Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration; Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart; Society of the Atonement, Roman Catholic, formerly Episcopal, Franciscan religious society; Third Order of Saint Francis. Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God