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In 1956, St. Benedict admitted laywomen and in 1960, the college began admitting men but ultimately closed in the spring of 1970. Monastery of the Immaculate Conception, Ferdinand, Indiana Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana was founded as a daughter house of Immaculate Conception.
The Benedicta Arts Center at the College of St. Benedict in St. Cloud, Minnesota is named for Mother Benedicta Riepp. [12] The Benedicta Riepp Award is presented by the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict of St. Benedict's Monastery in St. Cloud "to a woman who exemplifies Benedictine and Gospel values in her daily life." [13]
In 1989, the Sisters opened the school the St. Benedict Education Center in Erie County, which also serves students from Clarion, Crawford, Forest, Venango, and Warren counties. [21] The Sisters also run the Saint Benedict Child Care Center, which originated as a Head Start program run out of the former convent building. In 1969, they expanded ...
In 1852, Sister Benedicta Riepp and two other sisters founded St. Marys, Pennsylvania. Soon they would send sisters to Michigan, New Jersey, and Minnesota. [39] By 1854, Swiss monks began to arrive and founded St. Meinrad Abbey in Indiana, and they soon spread to Arkansas and Louisiana. They were soon followed by Swiss sisters.
Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa – Santa Rosa, California [122] Norbertine Canonesses – Tehachapi, California [123] – Premonstratensian Rite; Poor Sisters of St. Clare at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery – Fort Wayne, Indiana [124] Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Church – Spokane, Washington [125]
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 ...
Mount St. Scholastica College, Atchison (merged with all-male St. Benedict's College in 1971 to form Benedictine College) Oswego College for Young Ladies, Oswego (closed in 1910) University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth (co-ed since 1988; Saint Mary College until 2003) Vail College, Topeka (closed in 1928; also known as College of the Sisters of ...
Saint Emma Monastery (founded 1931) is a Roman Catholic retreat house and monastery for the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Westmoreland County, located in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The current Prioress is Mother Mary Anne Noll OSB.