The community of Sisters of St. Joseph at London was founded in 1868 by five sisters from the mother-house at Toronto, who opened an orphan asylum the following year. The Brazilian province, founded in 1859, has several flourishing academies, besides day-schools for the upper classes, schools for negroes, hospitals, orphanages and foundling asylums, and one home for lepers. As early as 1847 foundations were made in other sections of the United States. L. M. Pink, Bishop of Leavenworth, decided that those sisters should belong to his diocese exclusively, and in so doing they became the nucleus of a new diocesan community of the Sisters of St. Joseph, having their mother-house established at Abilene, under the title of Mount St. Joseph's Academy. Postulants: Thant Pha Wai Lwin. Under the new form of government the congregation is subject to a superior general, whose term of office is six years and is divided into provinces, each possessing a novitiate. Presence at: Sisters of St. Francis Provincial House. "Sisters of Saint Joseph. " It is beautifully situated on the Palisades overlooking the Hudson River. For a history of the Sisters of St Joseph in Australia and New Zealand, see The archives comprise records of Congregational governance and administration, ministries and other activities undertaken as well as information which helps to preserve the history, spirit and charism of the Sisters of St Joseph. In 1903 four sisters who fled from France at the beginning of the troubles there, sought and obtained hospitality at St. Joseph's Convent, Flushing.
The novices, after two years probation, make annual vows for two years, after which they bind themselves by perpetual vows. In 1889 connection with the mother-house in France was severed, and many of the French sisters returned to their native land. The work of the sisters extends over the Archdioceses of Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Wellington, the Dioceses of Armidale, Wileannia, Port Augusta, Bendigo, Sale, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Rockhampton, and the Abbey Nullius of New Norcia. Other young women joined the little household, all of whom Mother St. John zealously trained according to the life and rules of the first Sisters of St. They teach Christian doctrine in many Sunday schools besides those attached to the schools under their charge. Home parish: St. Mary's, Reynoldsville, PA. Hildegarde Boxer, SSJ. 385 Watervliet-Shaker Road, Latham, NY 12110. 7262 Mercy Road, Omaha, NE 68124. The sisters teach in the parish elementary schools at Nottingham and Hanwell, and have a middle-class school attached to each convent. Home parish: St. Francis, Clearfield, PA. Carol Morehouse, SSJ.
Redemptorists Denver, Very Rev. The constitutions which Father Médaille wrote for the sisters are borrowed from the rules of St. Ignatius, the saintly founder adding observations from his own experience. The people among whom the sisters laboured in St. Louis were poor and rude, and apparently destitute of any taste for either religion or education. At the time the sisters arrived at St. Louis, this humble house was occupied by the Sisters of Charity, who there cared for a few orphans soon after transferred to a new building. Mary Rita Kuhn, SSJ. But after the division was made, the following year, Abilene was in the Concordia diocese, and Parsons was in the Wichita diocese, and the mother-house of the Sisters of St. Joseph being in Parsons, the community belonged to the Wichita diocese, having mission-houses in both the Diocese of Concordia and the Diocese of Kansas City. Mary DePaul Sabella, SSJ. Presence at: Sacred Heart-Warrensburg, MO. Presence at: Our Lady's Montessori School.
6400 Minnesota Ave., St. Louis, MO 63111. Yet despite their differences, they shared a deep love of God and a common desire to serve the needs of the poor all around them. Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Joseph's Provincial House, Sr. Mary Anne Heenan, CSJ. 4511 W. Pine Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63108-2191. In-Charge of the Delegation. Lsp-Little Sisters of the Poor. In 1902 many French houses of the order were closed by the Government, in consequence of which a large number of sisters left for the foreign missions chiefly Denmark and Russia. The sisters now number about 4000, and are widely spread over the world. Geraldine Olon, SSJ. In 1683, at the request of Mgr Jean-Baptiste de la Croix Chevrière, Count of St-Vallier, later Bishop of Quebec, two sisters of St. Joseph from Le Puy took charge of a hospital recently founded by him at St-Vallier (Drôme).
Sr. Marion Sian Lian Sian Cing, Community In-Charge, Formator; Sr. Esperanza Magsino, Community. Note: No update received. In March, 1895, the constitutions were submitted to the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda by the founder, and in the September following the Decree "Lauda" was obtained.
Presence at: St. Louis-Kansas City, MO. The morning she was to be executed, the government fell and, instead of being executed, she was set free. Later on other foundations were made in British Columbia (Diocese of New Westminster), namely a hospital at Rossland, another at Greenwood, and a day and boarding school at Nelson. The province of Savoy: previously in charge of 52 establishments, has now but 14. Home parish: Sacred Heart, Erie, PA. Ann Marie Cappello, SSJ.