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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.
Formerly operated by the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters, the Catholic fraternal organization Knights of Columbus purchased the retreat house for the Sisters of Life, with the hope that the Sisters' ministry would "help people from around the world to deepen their spiritual life and commitment to live the challenge of being a people for life." [8]
Notable educators among the Sisters were Mother Mary Catherine Kenny, Mother Camillus and Mother Regis. While St. John's School closed in 2020, [9] the RJM Sisters currently live in Yonkers, NY, and the Family of Jesus and Mary, [10] a group of sisters and lay associates, meets monthly at St. John's parish life center (which is their former ...
Sisters belonging to Missionaries of Charity in their attire of traditional white sari with blue border.. The Missionaries of Charity (Latin: Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic centralised religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women [3] established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
The Sisters in New York established The New York Foundling in 1869, [6] an orphanage for abandoned children but also a place for unmarried mothers to receive care themselves and offer their children for adoption. (New York immigrant communities were plagued by prostitution rings that preyed on young women, and out-of-wedlock pregnancies were a ...
Our Mother of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church Complex is a historic former Roman Catholic church complex located at Greece in Monroe County, New York. The complex consists of the Romanesue Revival style brick church (ca.1858–1878) and the adjacent community cemetery (1823–ca.1900). The church was converted for use as a public library. [2]
The area around Rosary Hill later came to be called Hawthorne, New York, in honor of Lathrop's father. The order founded a second home in 1912 at 71 Jackson Street in Manhattan. [1] It was named St. Rose's Free Home for Incurable Cancer. Mother Alphonsa wanted a better environment for her charges than the bleak dirty streets of that part of ...
The Dominican Sisters of Hope formed in 1995 from the merger of three Dominican congregations: the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Newburgh, New York (1883), the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena (1891) of Fall River, Massachusetts, and the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor (1910) of Ossining, NY. They sponsor Mount ...