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The Sisters of Mary School was founded on August 15, 1985 in Sta. Mesa Manila Philippines and later on it expanded in different areas of Cavite. In 1990, The Sisters of Mary School established its first campus in Talisay City , which is also composed of both campuses for Boystown and Girlstown before they were separated.
In 1867, the Sisters came to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, where they ran the House of the Good Shepherd on Mission Hill in Boston for nearly a century. The Sisters moved their school to Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1964, where they provided a therapeutic residential program for girls until 1985. [21]
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 ...
On March 14, 2015, an eucharistic celebration, presided over by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, was held at the Silang Girlstown. The celebration was attended by members of the Sisters of Mary and the Brothers of Christ, along with almost 9,000 graduates of Boys Towns and Girls Towns from South Korea, Philippines, and Mexico.
Her creation of the School of Sacred Theology at St. Mary's College in 1943 was an outgrowth of her service on a committee of the Midwest chapter of the National Catholic Educational Association, which identified a problem in that religious sisters were being assigned to teach religion at Catholic institutions across the United States but were unable to enroll in graduate theology programs.
As the sisters community grew, they also took up teaching in the parish school at Fulda and Saint Meinrad. In 1870, they opened Academy Immaculate Conception, later renamed Marian Heights Academy, a boarding school for girls. [8] (Marian Heights Academy closed in 2000.) In 1871, the Benedictine Sisters of Ferdinand became an independent ...
More than 5,200 women have entered the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods congregation since its founding in 1840. As of 2010, there are nearly 400 sisters in the order. Roughly 300 of them live and minister from the motherhouse grounds at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.
Mother Mary Ephrem Glenn, S.P. (January 21, 1836 – February 1, 1916) was the Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana from 1874 to 1883. During her term, she established missions beyond Indiana for the first time and greatly reduced the Congregation's indebtedness, which was partly a result of the ...