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  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mary, as the first Christian Saint and Mother of Jesus, was deemed to be a compassionate mediator between suffering mankind and her son, Jesus, who was seen as King and Judge.
It was subsequently claimed that the Blessed Virgin Mary during her sixteenth appearance in Lourdes on March 25, 1858 announced to Bernadette Soubirous "I am the Immaculate Conception".
The central role of Mary in the belief and practice of Catholicism is reflected in the fact that many Catholic churches contain side altars dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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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 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.
In 1993, one of the BVM Sisters, who had since died, was accused of molestation.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
A congregation begun by five young women in Dublin, Ireland, 8 December, 1831, with the purpose of devoting themselves to the service of God in the education of children.
As they organized themselves into a community under this rule, Father Donoghoe is rightly called the founder of this sisterhood with Mary Frances Clarke the first superior, and Margaret Mann the assistant and mistress of novices.
The work of the sisters is that of education; they engage in no other.
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 Patron Saints Index: Blessed Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí y Moreno
On 16 March 1878 in Malaga he founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy to work for the spiritual and physical improvement of the poor.
As a parish priest, he was committed to "visibly providing for all those who, suffering from abandonment, must drink from the bitter chalice and receive nourishment from the bread of tears" (19 June 1859).
He was inspired, through invocation to the Virgin of Mercy, Mother of the Redeemer, to found the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, with the aim of making God's love ever-present where there was "just one suffering to heal, one misfortune to console, one single hope to instil in hearts".
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 Sisters of Charity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 FrancesClarke.
BVM Sisters founded Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa and Mundelein College in Chicago, Illinois.Mundelein College is now a part of Loyola UniversityChicago, a member institution of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
BVM Sisters have been involved with the Women's Ordination Conference, a group that esposes the Ordination of women as priests despite the matter being declared closed by the Vatican.
www.therfcc.org /sisters-of-charity-152561.html   (257 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 1000 West Sheridan Road in Rogers Park.
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.
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 Profile
The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael have been joined by the Brothers of Mary, the Franciscan Friars, diocesan priests, the Sisters of Charity of The Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.
Mary's is a Roman Catholic, four year, co-educational comprehensive high school under the direction of the Bishop of the Diocese of Stockton.
Mary's exceeded state and national test averages on AP exams for 2001-2002 and from 1990 to 2002 has exceeded state and national averages on AP exams.
www.saintmaryshighschool.org /General/Profile.htm   (1314 words)

  
 Colorado Catholicism by Thomas J. Noel
Sister Mary Luminia, the principal, advertised the academy for "girls who desire health as well as primary education," hoping to attract to this dry, sunny foothills boarding school girls suffering from or exposed to tuberculosis.
Sisters Mary Marcelliana, Anthony, Augustina, Hilarita, and Cypriana opened Sacred Heart of Jesus School on September 4, 1900, in the two-story frame rectory that the Benedictines had built at 14th and Mapleton in 1891.
For the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who had served the parish since the 1890s, a new $175,000 convent was constructed on the northeast corner of 14th and Mapleton.
www.archden.org /noel/07041.htm   (1442 words)

  
 Blessed Virgin Mary Information
See Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the religious order of women whose members use the initals BVM following their names.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, sometimes shortened to The Blessed Virgin is a traditional title specifically used by Roman and Eastern Catholics, Anglo-Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and others to describe Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Mary as Co-Redemtrix is entirely tied to her role in the Incarnation of Jesus.
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 Bomis: The Society/Religion and Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Catholicism/Orders/Women's Orders/Charity Ring
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Dubuque, Iowa
Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth - Leavenworth, Kansas
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth - Nazareth, Kentucky
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 About Mary Frances Clarke : Clarke College
After Mary Frances Clarke founded a community of teachers, she directed them to “teach without seeming to teach.” When she instructed the Sisters to “incite” student-girls to think for themselves, she inspired a revolution among 19th-century young women.
This resulted in her group, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs), being among the first congregations of apostolic women religious established in the United States.
Mary Frances Clarke’s spirit of insurgency and ingenuity was fostered by her parents.
www.clarke.edu /page.aspx?id=498   (947 words)

  
 The East Tennessee Catholic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Changes in the ranks of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary are not unusual in the history of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Chattanooga because the order has always sent new women religious to succeed those retiring.
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.
www.etcatholic.com /jul6/sisters.htm   (787 words)

  
 Christ the King School History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When Bishop O'Hara blessed Christ the King's church in 1943 he urged the people to build a parish school because he foresaw a rapid development of the area.
The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) were in charge.
Sisters Mary Rosula (intermediate grade teacher) and Mary Annarea (primary grade teacher) were missioned to the school and were somewhat surprised to find themselves in the basement.
www.ctkkcmo.org /schhist.html   (757 words)

  
 Nun Dolls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word was founded by the Most Reverend Claude M. Dubuis at Galveston, Texas, in 1866.
The Community of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth was founded in Newark, New Jersey, on September 29, 1859, by Mother Mary Xavier Mehegen at the request of the Most Reverend James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark.
The Bishop was the nephew of Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity in the United States.
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 The Montana Catholic Online: Obituaries: August 13, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sister Maurita Postlewait, 91, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth, a teacher, and activist for the poor and elderly, died Aug. 5, 2004, at the motherhouse in Leavenworth, Kan.
Sister Postlewait served in many capacities throughout her life including: community coordinator of religious education at the motherhouse, director of education at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, coordinator for volunteer services for the Visiting Nurse Association in Denver, program director for the Denver Archdiocesan Housing Commission and the Archdiocesan Commission for the Elderly.
Sister Postlewait received a bachelor’s degree in English and history from the University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth; a master’s in religious education from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., and a professional certificate in gerontology from the University of Denver.
www.diocesehelena.org /mtcath/aug04/obit.htm   (449 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Behold Your Mother: Woman of Faith
Mary is the "exalted Daughter of Zion" in whom, after the long waiting for the promise, the times are fulfilled and the new dispensation is established.
In Mary's virginal dedication to her Son's saving work, the Church sees delineated her own mission to bear witness to values that go beyond the secular city to the city of redeemed man, the kingdom of God, in its present reality as well as in its future completion.
Mary is the person of noble and generous heart, the woman of faith who heard the word and took it to herself and yielded the great harvest through her perseverance, her love and her faith.
www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=5244   (17811 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Nuns to donate their brains to science 03/13/99
Sisters St. Julian Flaherty (from left), Carolyn Weibler and Ruth Schiffler are among about 86 Catholic nuns in Dubuque, Iowa, and Chicago who have agreed to donate their brains to researchers trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
Sister Schiffler is one of about 86 nuns in the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary order in Dubuque and Chicago who have agreed to leave their brains to science.
The nuns in Sister Schiffler's order, about a dozen Dubuque-area priests and the same number of Trappist monks at New Melleray Abbey in nearby Peosta are among the members of 25 religious communities in nine states taking part in the project.
www.augustachronicle.com /stories/031399/fea_124-6746.shtml   (766 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.
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 The Montana Catholic Online: Obituaries: October 17, 2003
Sister Mahan is survived by a sister, Alice Munson, Algona, Iowa; nieces and nephews, and the Sisters of Charity, BVM, with whom she shared life for 74 years.
Sister Mary Janet McGilley, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth, and former president of St. Mary College (now the University of St. Mary), died Sept. 13, 2003, at St. John Hospital, Leavenworth.
Sister McGilley was a published poet, writer and co-author of “From the Tower: Poems from St. Mary College,” published in 1996.
www.diocesehelena.org /mtcath/oct03/obit.htm   (727 words)

  
 History of Sisters of Charity of B.V.M.
The Irish Sisters of Charity were established in that city by Mary Aikenhead in 1817; the Sisters of Mercy by Catherine McCauley in 1831; the Loretto Nuns by Mary Frances Ball in 1822, this last being a colony from the York Convent, England.
In the exercise of charity to the poor and suffering they were closely associated, and interchange of ideas showed a unity of purpose, revealed but one spirit animating them,- a desire to attain to holiness and to do good to their fellow-creatures, thereby to serve God more earnestly.
All went well; the various pastors gave to the work their blessing and approbation, and with words of praise and frequent visits to the school were a strength and happiness to teachers and pupils.
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 Iowa Commission on the Status of Women
Mary Frances Clarke, BVM, born in Dublin, Ireland in 1803, played an important part in the educational and religious formation of this state.
In 1833, Clarke organized her community, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Sisters of Charity also started various elementary and secondary schools around the state that have educated generations of Iowans.
www.state.ia.us /government/dhr/sw/hall_fame/iafame/iafame-clarke.html   (171 words)

  
 RELCOMM
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary are an Iowa based community of 892 members who serve in 25 states, primarily in ministries of education, pastoral services and justice.
The Sisters of Charity's mission is to stand on the side of the poor.
The Ursuline Sisters are in the field of education, parish ministry and social ministry.
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 Biographies of Blesseds - 1998
Sister St Theodore and her five sister companions left France on 27 July 1840 and arrived at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, the evening of 22 October 1840.
All the sisters, aware of the danger, were praying in the chapel: the they had recited the Rosary and were commending their souls.
She provided for the safety of her sisters and took refuge with one of them at the home of that sister's parents, where she remained until her arrest, despite her brother's pleas that she move to his home.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/bios98.htm   (10252 words)

  
 Sisters of Selma - BVM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mary Frances Clarke and her four companions, immigrants from Dublin, found the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs) in Philadelphia.
Sister Mary Leoline and nine clergy and seminarians who completed the 50-mile march travel to Washington to refute before Congress the charges of disorderly conduct made against the marchers by Congressman Dickenson.
Mary Ann Sommer (Sister Mary Leoline) chose to redirect her commitment to the cause of freedom and equality as a diocesan nun in Detroit.
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 Clarke, Mary Frances
Mary Clarke was born in Dublin, Ireland, on March 2, 1803, and was early drawn to the religious life.
Under Mother Mary's leadership, the Sisters of Charity opened and staffed St. Mary's Female Academy (later Mount St. Joseph's Academy) in 1843.
Mother Mary, a reclusive figure even within her order, governed the sisters until her death in Dubuque on December 4, 1887.
www.britannica.com /women/articles/Clarke_Mary_Frances.html   (210 words)

  
 The East Tennessee Catholic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.
Sister Helen came to OLPH in 1982, one year before Sister Frances, who also had an assignment at the school from 1964 to 1966.
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)

  
 Blessed Virgin Mary: The Miraculous Medal | Catholic-Pages.com
Her mother died when she was eight, and when her elder sister, Louisa, left home to become a Sister of Charity, the duties of housekeeper and helper to her father fell upon her.
When her mother died she chose the Blessed Virgin fro her mother, and when she was about 14 or so she heard a call to the religious life.
Sister Catherine confided in her confessor, Père Aladel, and he, after making very careful investigations, was given permission by the Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur de Quelen, to have the medal struck.
www.catholic-pages.com /bvm/miracmedal.asp   (850 words)

  
 RootsWeb Message Boards - Message [ OBIT: Sister Catherine Ann Fay, BVM 1913 -- 2004 Massachusetts --> Illinois, Iowa, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sister Catherine (Catherine Ann) Fay, BVM, 91, born Feb. 19, 1913 in Springfield, MA.
She taught at St. Mary High School and St. Tarcissus, Chicago, and was postulant mistress for the Sisters of Charity, BVM.
Memorials to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Retirement Fund, 1100 Carmel Dr., Dubuque, IA would be appreciated.
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