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	Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known by their initials BVM, is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in the United States by Mother Mary Frances Clarke.
		BVM Sisters founded Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa and Mundelein College in Chicago, Illinois.
		BVM Sisters have been involved with the Women's Ordination Conference, a group that espouses the Ordination of women as priests despite the matter being declared closed by the Vatican.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sisters_of_Charity_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary (303 words)

	Gillette 1970 1980
		BVM Sisters: In August, 1975, Sister Mary Kelliher, of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, came to St. Matthew’s parish to assist with the religious education program and with home visits.
		Sister Mary Artura Buza joined Sisters Mary and Anita in the fall of 1978, and served in the parish until May of 1979.
		Sister Mary Christella Dee came to St. Matthew’s parish in August, 1980, again bringing to three the number of BVM sisters serving the parish.
	www.dioceseofcheyenne.org /history/Gillette_1980.html (709 words)

	M. Evangela and M. Ernestine Henthorne
		Sister Mary Evangela and her two sisters were for six years resident pupils at I.C.A. Her younger sister, Genevieve, became Sister Mary Ernestine, director of the art department of St. Mary high school, Chicago, and this year she received her Master's degree at Loyola University, Chicago.
		Sister was a student at Sisters college, Washington, DC (1911) and received her Ph.D., in history from the University of Illinois, Urbana, (1930).
		Sister Mary Ernestine was born in Sioux City, IA and entered the Sisters of Charity BVM on 8 Sep 1908 from Davenport, IA. She taught in various schools of the community, including schools in Dubuque and Ceresco, IA.
	members.aol.com /Ryoucuz/sisters.htm (3933 words)

	Mundelein College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Founded and administered by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mundelein College was famous for pioneering women's studies and women's leadership programs now taught in most colleges and universities throughout the world.
		On November 1, 1929, exactly three days after the stock market crash that heralded the start of the Great Depression, Sister Mary Justitia Coffey and Mother Mary Isabella Kane of the BVM Sisters presided over the groundbreaking of the landmark Mundelein College Skyscraper at 6525 North Sheridan Road.
		Even though the BVM Sisters retired from their administration of Mundelein College, their ideals and values continued through the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, established by Loyola University Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mundelein_College (510 words)

	Sisters of Selma - BVM
		Sister Raynold is therefore among the few who are allowed to assemble on the County Courthouse steps on March 15 with Dr. Martin Luther King.
		Sister Mary Leoline's testimony at the press conference lead BVM participants in Selma to probe its implications for the BVM community and their participation in the civil rights movement.
		Mary Ann Sommer (Sister Mary Leoline) chose to redirect her commitment to the cause of freedom and equality as a diocesan nun in Detroit.
	home.earthlink.net /~sistersofselma/sos9.htm (606 words)

	The Montana Catholic Online: Women religious celebrate jubilees
		Sister Rachel was born in Bozeman, Mont. Music education became her ministry and she served in schools in Washington and Wisconsin.
		Sister Rachel continued working in the secretarial field for the next 24 years, including 14 years at Aetna Insurance in Lynwood, Wash. Currently in her retirement, she serves in the office at Holy Rosary Parish in Edmonds, Wash. She resides in Lynnwood.
		Sister Virginia Paul (Sister Monica Mary) was born in Seattle and raised in eastern Washing-ton.
	www.diocesehelena.org /mtcath/jul04/jubilees.htm (1177 words)

	Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
		The Sisters of Charity, BVM have taken a public position of opposition to the death penalty, and pledged themselves to work for its abolition.
		The BVM Senate and gathered Assembly approved this stand during the community's summer meeting.
		"We, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Dubuque, Iowa, oppose the death penalty.
	www.icadp.org /page61.html (343 words)

	The East Tennessee Catholic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The words were a salute to the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who are leaving the Chattanooga parish and school after serving them for the entire 66 years of their existence.
		The final two BVM sisters to serve OLPH, Sisters Frances Schaeffer and Helen Sherrard, attended a Mass and dinner to honor their congregation’s dedication to the community.
		Sister Helen, who has taught at OLPH and ministered to the homebound, said that summertime goodbyes normally are not big news.
	www.etcatholic.com /jul20/bvm.htm (1231 words)

	Feature Article
		The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (or BVM's) established boarding schools and taught in parish schools across Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
		Parishioners, parish staff members and her BVM community affectionately call her "Sister Mac." She is retiring to Chicago the first week of June and will be greatly missed by parishioners, past students and teachers and residents of the St. Augustine neighborhood.
		The BVM sisters in Memphis exemplify their core values by working in the Minority communities and bringing the Gospel of Jesus to them.
	cdom.org /wtc/wtc_archives/wtc052903/wtc_pages/feature_article2.html (865 words)

	The Catholic Diocese of Peoria - Catholic Post - February 23, 2003 issue - Top stories, week of Feb. 23
		ROCK ISLAND -- The Sisters of St. Benedict based at St. Mary's Monastery here are among a dozen regional communities of Catholic women religious sponsoring a radio message to encourage work and prayer for peace.
		Helping to fund the radio message is "one of the ways the Sisters of St. Benedict are responding to the potential conflict," said Sister Ruth Ksycki, prioress of St. Mary Monastery.
		Sister Ruth said it is the "fervent prayer" of the Rock Island Benedictines that world-wide efforts for peace meet with success.
	www.cdop.org /catholic_post/post_2_23_03/news.cfm (1437 words)

	The East Tennessee Catholic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sister Helen, who retired last year but continued living at the parish convent, has taught at the school and ministered to the homebound in her 21 years at OLPH.
		Sister Margaret Devereaux, BVM, principal at OLPH from 1965 to 1985, wrote that she fell in love with the city and school from her first visit.
		Sister Margaret remembered slumber parties, May crownings, bomb scares, tornado drills, and Christmas plays in “the wonderful 20 years I was privileged to experience there.
	www.etcatholic.com /jul6/sisters.htm (787 words)

	All Hallows Parish School - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sister Mary Noella, BVM, departed All Hallows to return to a BVM convent in San Francisco.
		In 1867, the BVM sisters began educational ministry in Chicago, expanding to the West Coast and other points in the Midwest, South and East.
		The number of BVM sisters in educational ministries declined, but they have diverged into multiple other ministries in service to the Church.
	www.allhallowsschool.org /history.html (665 words)

	The Montana Catholic Online: BVM Sisters, former Montana educators, celebrate diamond jubilees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Three Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary who are former Montana educators are celebrating jubilees of 75 years in religious life.
		Sisters Brown and Forsyth live at 1150 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, IA 52003, while Sister Fitzgibbons’ address is 1050 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, IA 52003.
		Sister Marge taught in Butte at St. Ann, 1957-58; and Immaculate Conception, 1958-61.
	www.diocesehelena.org /mtcath/sept03/sisters2.htm (310 words)

	Moving a whole community from paper to the 'Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		(Our congregational practice is that sisters use the finances they need at the local level, and send in the rest.) Some sisters had computers at work with the ability to access community business; others were in a parish situation where only the parish secretary had the e-mail access; others had none at all.
		TRAVELLING TUTORIALS: In addition, during the past year, one of our sisters who just retired as director of a university computer lab offered, as part of her sabbatical, to travel wherever she was invited by our sisters and do on-site tutorials.
		Sisters used the BVM-cong listserve extensively for discussions leading up to this meeting, and this exchange of questions and opinions was a major factor in our sisters feeling well-prepared for the large gathering.
	www.ncnwr.org /mira.htm (1449 words)

	BVM Ministry in Latin America: Beginnings
		BVM sisters were requested for that program, and Helen Wright responded by sending now-deceased Margaret Houlihan, BVM (St. Jude) to Quito to work in the English language program there.
		Joan Newhart, BVM (Joan Michael) joined the faculty of the chemistry department at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá in l965 and remained there until 1968 when she and Eileen McGovern left their teaching positions at the university in Bogotá to help establish the chemistry and sociology departments at a Jesuit university in Salta, Argentina.
		When sisters were free to choose their ministries, the Spirit continued to lead BVMs south of the border.
	www.bvmcong.org /salt/salt/fall2004/mcgovern.htm (1166 words)

	Feature Article
		As a young BVM, Sister Nic was educated to be a teacher at Clarke College in Dubuque and Mundelein College in Chicago.
		In 1978, Sister Nic ended her years of teaching math at I.C. in Clarksdale and volunteering in the women's section of Parchman State Penitentiary to teach religion at St. Mary's High School in Clinton, went on to Emmanuel College in Boston to earn her Master's Degree in Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry.
		Sister Nic's concern for the needs of women in prison was deepened by her practicum experience at Framingham State Prison for Women in Massachussets.
	cdom.org /wtc/wtc_archives/wtc081904/wtc_pages/feature_article3.html (666 words)

	Archives - Memento for Sister M. Angela Merici Madigan
		Marie Madigan (Sister Angela Merici) was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of four children.
		She attended grade school with the Ursuline sisters, and high school with the BVM sisters.
		Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Cross Ministry With the Poor Fund, Saint Mary’s, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556.
	www.cscsisters.org /archives/mementos/2004/angela_merici.asp (659 words)

	history
		Sister Grace O’Connor, BVM in 1920 and later in 1925 Sister Dolores Shaffner, BVM were principals during this time of remodeling.
		Sister Carlino Guyton, BVM was principal for the new school.
		During this time with numerous sisters as part of the teaching staff, the convent was built for their living quarters in 1956.
	www.cr-cath.pvt.k12.ia.us /lasalle/information/history.html (1060 words)

	BRO. HUMILUS WOJTKOWIAK, O.F.M.
		Both the Felician Sisters and OFM of BVM Providence have websites that have tributes to their community.
		He is preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Francis Kobylarek and Irene Widawski, and one brother, Edward Szajko.
		He is survived by one brother, Marion Szajko, his sister-in-law Margaret and numerous nieces and nephews and his Franciscan brothers of the Assumption BVM province.
	www.mipolonia.net /essays/bro_sis_2.htm (870 words)

	USCCB - World Day for Consecrated Life 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She traces the roots of her vocation to the religious life to her childhood, when the religious sisters at her neighborhood Catholic school were more than teachers; they were family friends.
		The sisters impressed Golm with their devotion to spreading the Gospel, their thinking on women’s issues, their commitment to community life, and, most importantly, “a willingness not to be co-opted by the day-to-day American lifestyle,” she said.
		While she was living in community with BVM sisters as a candidate, she went to work and found out she was marked for termination from her job because of corporate changes.
	www.nccbuscc.org /consecratedlife/pmartin.htm (860 words)

	Religious Orders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs: www.columbusdominicans.org
		Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration: www.stfrancis.org
		Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary: www.marywood.edu/wwwihmpage
	www.archdiocese-chgo.org /links/linksrorder.shtm (191 words)

	SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary facts and information
		Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known by their initials BVM, is a Roman_Catholic religious_order founded in the United_States by Mother Mary Frances Clarke.
		BVM Sisters founded Clarke_College in Dubuque,_Iowa and Mundelein_College in Chicago,_Illinois.
	www.marlinmall.com /Sisters_of_Charity_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary (281 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of March 9
		The two sisters, who had descended into the grave, out of compassion for her lovely and radiant face covered it with cloth and placed a rough board some inches above the corpse, so that the clods of earth should not touch it.
		All the sisters were deeply stirred; the scent spread throughout the church and convent, attaching itself to the hands that had touched her, and there seemed to be no explanation for it.
		(She had a younger sister Perna, who lived with her after the death of their parents.) Frances, a beautiful girl, was baptized the day she was born and confirmed at age six in the Church of Saint Agnes in the Piazza Navona.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0309.htm (6797 words)

	Scholarship to honor BVM sisters \| The-Tidings.com
		Since 1928, the congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been a mainstay of St. Brendan School in Hancock Park.
		In honor of their dedication and significant contribution to the community, a scholarship program has been established and will announce its first recipient at a presentation scheduled for Feb. 12 at 2 p.m.
		The recipient will be a deserving 6th, 7th or 8th grade St. Brendan School student who has demonstrated excellence both scholastically as well as in their Catholic faith.
	www.the-tidings.com /2004/0123/olabvm.htm (125 words)

	USCCB - (NRRO) - Retirement Fund for Religious Newletter (Winter 2000)
		On October 3, 1999, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary dedicated Caritas Center, a newly constructed addition to their retirement facilities located on the Mount Carmel campus in Dubuque, Iowa.
		A vital aspect of the planning process was to survey retired sisters regarding their health care concerns and their hopes for a new facility.
		Course topics range from art to theology, and BVM sisters, along with lay volunteers, share their time and expertise to staff the classes.
	www.nccbuscc.org /nrro/newsletter/wint2000.shtml (2121 words)

	The Clarke Collegian Fall 2000
		Students living in the Clarke College residence halls can tell you that getting a letter of support from one of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) brings a smile to their face.
		The sisters living at Mt. Carmel, the BVM Motherhouse campus, would say the same about their contact with Clarke students.
		The sisters then pray daily for the RA and the residents of their floors in the residence halls.
	www.clarke.edu /news/collegian/fall00/prayer.htm (309 words)

	Religious Congregations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
		Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM's)
		Copyrighted (c) 1998 by The Community of the Sisters of Saint Anne
	www.natcath.com /nem/congtxt.htm (29 words)

	Consecrated Life Day
		Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM)
		Sisters of Reparation of the Sacred Wounds of Jesus (SR)
		Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace of Bellevue, WA (CSJP)
	www.archdpdx.org /news2003/jan03/consecratedlife.html (352 words)

	Catholic Almanac Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Carroll, Austin (1835-1909): Sister of Mercy and caretaker of the poor.
		Friess, Mother Caroline (1824-92): Mother superior, School Sisters of Notre Dame in America from 1850-92; born in France; by 1892, her sisters had founded 265 parochial schools in 16 states and taught 70,000 pupils.
		Warde, Mary (1810-84): Mercy Sister; born in Ireland; entered the Sisters of Mercy and was sent to Pittsburgh; opened houses, boarding schools for girls, and eventually cared for the sick and orphans in New England, encountering much resistance from the Know-Nothings.
	www.osv.com /catholicalmanac/catholicspast.asp (8565 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - These nuns love beach volleyball
		When Kerri Walsh and Misty May won the first Olympic gold medal for the United States in beach volleyball Tuesday in Athens there was cheering, clapping, shouting and toasting.
		Every moment the blonde, long-legged athlete was on television since the competition began last week, O'Neill's room has been full of fellow BVM sisters cheering her on.
		The sisters chatted and laughed while they waited impatiently to see the beach volleyball games.
	www.olympic-usa.org /11624_25802.htm (585 words)

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