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Our Lady of Victory Chapel, St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. An old convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Ste. Geneviève, Missouri.. The Sisters of St. Joseph, also known as the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, abbreviated CSJ or SSJ, is a Catholic religious congregation of women founded in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, in 1650.
The Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph developed from the Sisters of Charity of St. Charles Borromeo, when in 1889 sisters from the latter congregation were sent from Poland to teach at St. Stanislaus parish in Pittsburgh. Eight years later, while working in Trenton, Agnes Victoria Hilbert, known as Sister Mary Colette was asked by the Bishop of ...
Nazareth University (Rochester, New York) – founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph (SSJ) of Rochester New York Medical College ( Valhalla, New York ) – now part of Touro University System St. John Fisher University ( Rochester, New York ) – founded by the Basilian Fathers (CSB); renounced affiliation with the Catholic Church in 1968
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A Fitting Response: The History of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis (2 vol. 1992) Quinonez, Lora, and Mary Daniel Turner. The Transformation of American Catholic Sisters (1993) excerpt and text search; Schneider, Mary L. "American Sisters and the Roots of Change: the 1950s." US Catholic Historian (1988): 55-72. JSTOR ...
A family by the name of Head extended hospitality, and after a week's rest, the sisters proceeded to St. Marys, Pennsylvania, arriving on July 22. There they established St. Joseph Monastery, the first convent of Benedictine Sisters in North America. [2] Two more sisters arrived from Eichstätt the following year.
Their foundation started with the request of the Rev. Adalbert Kazincy, pastor of St. Michael Parish in Braddock, Pennsylvania, made to the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Slovakia for help with caring for the children of the large Slovak immigrant population then arriving to seek work in the steel mills of Western Pennsylvania.
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. [9]