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History Nun is here! Take a walk through the convent archives with sisters from various congregations who have been ministering for decades! Discover why it's no mystery nuns make history!

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A Nun's Life Ministry

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Sisters of Charity - Holy Family School in Parma during the 50s. Vincentian @srcharitycinti Lois Marie Anton leads her class. @DIOCESEofCLE

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7 Likes, 1 Comments - IHM Sisters (@ihmsisters) on Instagram: “This week in Archives: As the temperature has soared toward 90 degrees this week, we all might have…”

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Adrian Dominican Sisters pray the Divine Office at the Convent Chapel at Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette, Illinois. The Adrian Dominicans founded the school in 1958. Four Dominican sisters from Bavaria arrived in New York City in 1853 to minister to The growing German Catholic community. A small group of sisters went to Adrian, Mich., in the 1880s. The congregation pursued ministries of education, healthcare and social services throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

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These Little-Known Nuns Helped Map the Stars

Sisters Emilia Ponzoni, Regina Colombo, Concetta Finardi and Luigia Panceri mapped the positions and brightness of 481,215 stars.

IHM Sisters, Monroe, Mich.: The St. Mary Academy girls had riding lessons on their class schedule and some brought their own horses from home. The Archives includes a letter written on Aug. 24, 1939, from Bettijane Warner of Detroit: “Dear Sister Miriam, I am writing to ask you if it will be all right to bring my horse to school the week following my arrival at the academy.” The riding academy closed in 1942 when Riding Master Russ Sweeny went to military service in World War II.

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Sisters of Providence, Mother Joseph Province, Washington State. This 1959 photo shows two of our SPs on the right, with a Sister of St. Ann and a Sister of St. Joseph, at the Portage Glacier in Alaska. How has climate change has affected that Glacier since then?

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Male Nurses

Nurse Pics

Traditional Catholicism

Sister Martha Walsh celebrates her diamond jubilee this year! She's a Sister of Charity from Cincinnati. Read more about her at: http://www.srcharitycinti.org/news_events/jubilee_diamonds.htm#walsh …

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Beer Nuns. From the early 19th century until the 1960s, the Sisters of Charity drank a light table beer during lunch. The sister in this picture is topping up supplies in the mother convent in Ghent (Belgium), #1955 (source: heritagecentre_scjm )

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Sisters prepare to go apple picking in the evenings. IHM Sisters, Monroe, Michigan.

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The Blessed Sacrament

Works Of Mercy

Blessed Sacrament

The Grotto

Vintage French Country

Sisters In Christ

IHM Sisters (Monroe, Mich.),1958. As recorded in the Motherhouse Chronicles: “The drama, Voice of Bernadette, which was written by Sister Mary Aquin [Ann Chester] to commemorate the centennial year of Lourdes, was presented in Lilac Court by a group of the Sisters. The finale was a candlelight procession to the Grotto, where Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was given – a fitting tribute to our Lady on the eve of her feast.”

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the war effort

Secondat: the war effort

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Shaw Communications

Mother Aimée Led the first Sisters of the congregation that came to Williams Lake in 1896

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Regions - Sisters of Notre Dame U.S.A.

Notre Dame Academy Foundation Story http://www.sndca.org/notre-dame-academy-beginnings/

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African American History

During his homily at her canonization Mass in St. Peter's Square, St. Pope John Paul II said that in St. Josephine Bakhita, "We find a shining advocate of genuine emancipation. The history of her life inspires not passive acceptance but the firm resolve to work effectively to free girls and women from oppression and violence, and to return them to their dignity in the full exercise of their rights."

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1979: Sister Assisi playing ping pong in her shades at the New Community Homes.