She entered the order of Poor Clares nuns, and became superioress of a convent in Rimini. Her feast day is February 10.
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Mary Gonzaga Grace (February 22, 1812 – October 8, 1897), born Anne Grace, was an American religious sister, a member of the Sisters of Charity order based in Emmitsburg, Maryland. She was longtime executive at the St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum in Philadelphia, and during the American Civil War she was Superioress at the Satterlee Hospital in the same city.
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She was still with the orphanage in 1836 when they moved to a new location in the city. In 1843, Grace became superioress at the orphanage. In 1844, she was reassigned to the Sisters of Charity house in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and in 1845 reassigned again, to New Orleans. She returned to St. Joseph's orphanage in Philadelphia in 1851.
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With the help of two other Dominican nuns, Arroyo would eventually create the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary, a Filipino congregation, on February 18, 1927. Elected the First Superioress General of the Congregation at the Congregation's First General Chapter of January 3–6, 1953, she had 32 years of service. Madre Sayong or Madre Maestra, as Arroyo was known, died on June 14, 1957.
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She established an industrial department which taught skills such as dressmaking and weaving. She went on to oversee Mercy foundation in Ennistymon in 1871 and Kinvara in 1878. She retired from her position as superioress at Kinvara in 1885, but continued to live there. During Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, Doyle was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1897 as the only surviving Irish war-nurse.
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The party consisted of Mother Teresa Mons, Superioress, Mother Mary de Chantel Kelly with two novices. They were accompanied by Fr. John Me Girr. The Sisters began with two students, Miss Ryves and Miss Emma Moran. The sisters moved from their first residence "Snowy View" to the new Convent building on 1 May 1847 and the school building was added in 1853 which had particularly large playgrounds.
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Kathleen Appler D.C (died 18 March 2020) was an American Roman Catholic nun, became one of the first seven women appointed members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life the second highest-ranking department of the Roman Curia, the administrative institution of the Holy See on 8 July 2019, when she was appointed by Pope Francis. From 25 May 2015 until her death on 18 March 2020In Memoriam: Sister Kathleen Appler, D.C., she was the Superioress General of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de PaulSr. Kathleen Appler, DC to lead Daughters of CharitySor Kathleen Appler, nueva Superiora General de la Compañía de las Hijas de la Caridad and since 2009 is member of its General Assembly.SISTER KATHLEEN APPLER – THE NEW SUPERIORESS GENERAL Sister Kathleen Appler died in Paris on 18 March 2020 after a long and painful illness.
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Saint Basil the Great in his rules addresses both men and women. Augustine of Hippo drew up the first general rule for such communities of women. It was written in the year 423 and was addressed to Felicitas, Superioress of the Monastery of Hippo, and to Rusticus, the priest whom Augustine had appointed to have charge of the nuns. In Ireland, St. Patrick instituted canons regular, and St. Bridget was the first of numberless canonesses.
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Communities of Presentation Sisters exist throughout the world. However, historical and legal factors caused these communities to develop and operate as autonomous groups. Each community is independent of the motherhouse, and subject only to its own superioress and the bishop of its respective diocese. A large proportion of these communities are today more closely united within the Union of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, created by papal decree on 19 July 1976.
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She is described as "Brigid daughter of Congal" in Professor Brian O'Looney's Irish Life of the Saint pages 21 and 22. In the fifth life of Brigid she is said to have lived in the Leinster province and been "mother or superioress over a monastery and its nuns, who were servants of Christ."Vite Quinta San Brigidae, cam xlv xlvi, p. 578. > St Brigid was asked to visit another virgin called Briga, and at the house > of the latter.
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The Glockner Sanatorium and Training School for Nurses was operated by Sister Rose Alexius, the superioress, in 1916. It had 200 beds by 1921 and was the Glockner Sanatorium and Hospital in 1940. Glockner evolved over the years into Penrose Hospital. Penrose Hospital won an Excellence in Historic Preservation Stewardship award in 2014 for the fully restored tuberculosis hut, or tent cottage, and its early 20th century furnishings that was used by people who came to the Colorado Springs area to cure their tuberculosis.
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He entrusted them to Marguerite Le Maître, a domestic servant. Other orphans were found and sheltered. In 1826, Marguerite's home contained an oratory and was provided with a dormitory holding thirty beds. Three years later she received her first two co-labourers, and on 21 November 1829, the first chapel of the institute was opened. In 1832, Mlle Olympe de Moelien, in whose family Marguerite Le Maitre had been a servant when she began her charitable work, entered the little society, and was made superioress on 10 March 1833.
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Her prediction came to fruition for her husband joined the Trinitarian Order and later became an ordained priest - in the name of "Antonio" - of the Conventual Franciscans in Sezze and died there on 9 September 1845 (he was ordained in 1834). Her remains were interred in the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane church in Rome. Her nun daughter became the Superioress of the Oblate Nuns of Saint Philip Neri in Rome as "Maria Josephina" while her nephew Romualdo Canori was a professed brother and the then Vicar-General of the De La Salle Brothers.
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Miss O'Keefe had always treasured the thought of forming a religious community for the perpetuation of her work and to make reparation to Our Savior in the Blessed Sacrament. Archbishop (later-Cardinal) Farley, then the new Archbishop of New York, approved her religious congregation in September, 1903, under the title of the Sisters of Reparation of the Congregation of Mary. O'Keefe was named Superioress of the congregation under her religious name of Mother Zita. Her companion, Katherine Dunne (Sister Mary Magdalen) took the religious habit on her death-bed.
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Sister Bertilla was noted for her unwavering care of her patients, particularly those who were too ill to be moved to safety.Foley OFM, Leonard, "St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin", Saint of the Day:Lives, Lessons, and Feast, (revised by Pat McCloskey OFM), Franciscan Media This devotion to duty attracted the attention of the authorities of a local military hospital. However, her superioress did not appreciate Sister Bertilla's work and reassigned her to work in the laundry, a position she remained in for four months until being reassigned by a higher superior, who put Sister Bertilla in charge of the children's isolation ward at the hospital.
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The next year she built an almonry for the relief of the poor, and opened poor-schools. In 1851 she placed the orphanage founded by her father at Maryvale under the care of Sisters of her community, making her own sister, Mary Hardman, in religion Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost, superioress. In 1858 she built a middle-class boarding-school; twelve years later she erected elementary schools for the working classes at Handsworth; and in 1874 she opened a middle-class day-school for both of boys and girls. She died at Handsworth, at the age of seventy.
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The second superioress was Mother Mary Angela Collins. Soon after her succession a set of rules, adapted from that of St. Augustine, was drawn up by Bishop Francis Moylan, and approved by Pope Pius VI in September 1791. This congregation of teaching Sisters itself was given formal approval by Pope Pius VII in 1800. Communities branching from Cork were founded at Killarney in 1793, Dublin in 1794, and Waterford in 1798. A second convent at Cork was established in 1799, by Sister M. Patrick Fitzgerald; and a convent at Kilkenny in 1800, by Sister M. Joseph McLoughlan.
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O'Shea, Sr. Norma, A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Euphrasia, Good Shepherd Sisters, Waterford, Ireland A short time after her profession, she became first mistress of the penitents, and about eight years later was made superioress of the house of Tours.Butler's lives of the saints, Volume 4 by Alban Butler, Paul Burns 1999 page 175 She founded a community, the "Sisters Magdalen" for women who wanted to lead a contemplative and enclosed life and would support, by their ministry of prayer, the different works of the Congregation. It is now known as the Contemplatives of the Good Shepherd.
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Elisabetta Canori Mora was born in Rome on 21 November 1774 to the aristocrats Tommaso Canori and Teresa Primoli as one of twelve children; six of these children died as infants. One sister was Benedetta. She was baptized on 22 November in the names of "Maria Elisabetta Cecilia Gertrude". Her parents first entrusted her to the religious at the convent of Santa Euphemia for her initial studies and the Superioress Gertrude Riggoli discovered her keen gifts and wanted her there as a full-time student. Canori received her Confirmation in Saint Peter's Basilica on 5 July 1782 and Sister Riggoli was her godmother.
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The novices made their profession on 19 August 1841, and a day or two later Mother McAuley accompanied them to the new convent at Handsworth, where they were solemnly received by Bishop Nicholas Wiseman. Shortly afterwards Sister Mary Juliana was appointed first prioress of the community, and held that office off and on for thirty-five years, her first appointment lasting for six. She was then elected for three years, and twice re-elected for the same period, and from 1870 she held the office of superioress till her death. In 1849 she opened another convent at St. Chad's, Birmingham, and also one at Wolverhampton.
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During the Generalate of Mother Sylvie Azaïs, Superioress General from 1921 to 1936, the congregation began to copy and classify handwritten documents, in order to deepen the knowledge of the spirituality of Villeneuve. It was in 1945, that the Superior General Mother Marie Agathe Vernadat (1936-1947) began studying the writings of the late founder for the cause of canonization. On 18 August 1947, during the General Chapter, the Superior General Mother Germaine Sapene, communicated the decision of the council to introduce in Rome the cause of Villeneuve. The process began on 25 August 1948 under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Albi, Monsignor Jean-Joseph-Aimé Moussaron.
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She initially worked in the House of Mercy, a refuge for homeless women, as well as visiting the sick in their homes and in Sir Patrick Dun's and Mercer's hospitals. O'Connor was sent to London on 31 July 1844, on a temporary basis to be the first superioress of St Edward's Convent, 32 Queen's Square, Bloomsbury. She resigned from this position on 27 January 1846, at the request of bishop Dr John Hughes, to found a Convent of Mercy in New York. She left with a group of nuns from Dublin on 13 April 1846, boarding the Montezuma in Liverpool, and arrived in New York on 14 May 1846.
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She became a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1806, encountering it at Amiens. Her aristocratic mother also joined it a few years afterwards, and made her novitiate under the guidance of her own daughter. In 1815, despite her relative youth and the drawback of a slight physical deformity, Mother de Gramont was placed in charge of the first school of the Sacred Heart, opened in Paris, Rue des Postes, afterwards transferred to the Rue de Varenne. The school flourished under her care and, after a short interruption of her work by the revolution of 1830, she was sent back to govern the house as superioress and continued to do so until her death in 1846.
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Delaney, John J., "Blessed Clare of rimini", Dictionary Of Saints, Image/Doubleday, 2005 When the Poor Clares were compelled to leave Regno on account of the prevailing wars, it was mainly through the exertions of Clare that they were able to obtain a convent and means of sustenance at Rimini. Later, Clare herself entered the order of Poor Clares nuns, along with several other pious women, and became superioress of the convent of Our Lady of the Angels at Rimini. She is believed to have worked numerous miracles and towards the close of her life to have been favored in an extraordinary manner with the gift of contemplation. Her body is now in the cathedral of Rimini.
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The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Houston is a religious institute of women begun in 1866, at the request of French-born Claude Marie Dubuis, the second Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Galveston, which then included the entire state of Texas. Texas was suffering from the ravages of the Civil War, coupled with the tragedy of a rapidly spreading cholera epidemic. In 1866, Dubuis contacted his friend Mother Angelique Hiver, Superioress of the Order of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament in Lyons, France.Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas The Sisters could not fulfill his request since the Order was cloistered and was committed to the ministry of education.
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Under the request of the General Superioress of the Congregation Mother María Úrsula Montes Rojas, the house was turned into a free girls' school, which was founded in April 1947 under the name of (English: Doctor Eugenio Díaz Lira 16th Girls' Private School), in honour of the late physician. The school's main goal was to "educate girls in Catholic values," with the "necessary training for their insertion in the society as Christian mothers and workers with a solid Human Christian formation." The school's first principal was Mother María Teresa Corvalán Guzmán. Cristina Barra, pictured here during the inauguration of the preschool building in 2012, was the first teacher to work at the school The school was recognized by the Ministry of Education of Chile by Decree 12,946, on 31 December 1954.
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Nursing duties at Satterlee were performed by members of the Daughters of Charity, who began their work before the facility was finished or fully equipped. The hospital's "chapel was so small," according to historians at the Catholic Historical Research Center in Philadelphia, "that some sisters had to exit the room so others could enter and receive Holy Communion." Eating separately from, and earlier than, the military officers who also worked at the hospital, they were given just four of the officers' utensils to share. Ultimately, more than 100 Daughters of Charity worked at the hospital, living in a convent on the grounds, with Sister Mary Gonzaga Grace as their superioress. The facility's commanding officer was Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes, a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and graduate of the Westtown School and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School who had achieved a measure of fame as an Arctic explorer with the Second Grinnell Expedition of 1853-55 and with his own 1860-61 expedition in search of the Open Polar Sea before joining the United States Army as a surgeon.
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