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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.
The Maryknoll Society, aka, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, was founded in 1911 for those men who desired entering the Religious Life. [5]The Maryknoll Sisters was founded in 1912 for women who wanted to enter religious life and maintain the Maryknoll Missioner's charism.
The Maryknoll name is shared by a number of related Catholic organizations, including the Maryknoll Sisters, and the Maryknoll Lay Missioners. The organizations are independent entities with shared history that work closely together in the joint focus of the overseas mission activity of the Catholic Church particularly in East Asia , the United ...
Their title was "The Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic", it was later changed to the "Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic". Rogers was voted to be the official leader in 1925, [4] upon which point she took the name Mother Mary Joseph. She stayed head of the Maryknoll sisters until she retired.
Elizabeth Hirschboeck (March 10, 1903 – September 20, 1986), also known as Sister Mary Mercy, was a religious sister of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic and an international humanitarian. Early life and education
The school, originally known as Holy Spirit School, was founded by the Maryknoll Sisters, an American religious order, on 10 January 1927 in Hong Kong. Back then, the school was on Robinson Road in Central Mid-levels. There were only 8 classes of students sharing four tiny classrooms.
Maryknoll College of Panabo Inc. is a private, Catholic school in the city of Panabo, Davao del Norte. The school was associated by the Maryknoll Congregation also called the Maryknoll Sisters. Previously Dominican, the current patron of the institution is St. John Vianney.
Maura Clarke, MM (January 13, 1931 – December 2, 1980), was an American Maryknoll Sister who served as a missionary in Nicaragua and El Salvador.She worked with the poor and refugees in Central America from 1959 until her murder in 1980.