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Mary Wilhelmina was born Mary Elizabeth Lancaster on April 13, 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. [5] She was a descendent of enslaved African-Americans from Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. [2] She joined the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a congregation of black religious sisters in Baltimore, Maryland, when she was 17 years old and adopted the name ...
She joined the Sisters of St. Mary in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] In 1894 she moved to Maryville, Missouri to found and operate the town's first hospital (which is one of only two hospitals north of St. Joseph, Missouri in the Platte Purchase area of northwest Missouri). They formed a separate congregation, the Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville. [2]
The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute for women in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley . As of 2019, the institute has about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations .
Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition; Sisters of Charity of Australia; Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary; Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth; Sisters of Charity of Nazareth; Sisters of Charity of Nevers; Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy; Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy; Sisters of Charity of ...
St. Mary's Institute of O'Fallon, also known as the Motherhouse for the Congregation of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Most Precious Blood, is a historic convent, school, and national historic district located at O'Fallon, St. Charles County, Missouri. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site (a cemetery).
SSM Health (an initialism of Sisters of Saint Mary) is a Catholic, non-profit United States health care system. It has 11,000 providers and nearly 39,000 employees in four states: Missouri , Illinois , Oklahoma , and Wisconsin .
In 1850, the original Emmitsburg adopted the rule and habit with cornette of the Paris house. The winged appearance of the cornette would bring the sisters the affectionate nickname "God's geese" as they flew around a hospital in their prominent wimples. [6] The sisters in Cincinnati separated to form a diocesan community (1852).
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of religious sisters based in St. Louis, Missouri, noted for its operation of SSM Health Care, a group of some 20 hospitals throughout the Midwestern United States. It was formed in 1987 from the merger of two related congregations that founded many of the hospitals.