Kansas Sisters Celebrate Sesquicentennial Jubilee
On September 14 gone, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church - what you may know as Redemptorist -next door to Cristo Rey High School, was the Kansas City celebration of their 150th year of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth.
There’s a great history of the sisters in the Catholic Key, from the Saints Vincent De Paul and Louise de Marillac, who founded the Daughters of Charity in 17th century France, up to an beyond its very strong links with Ireland.
From the beginning in Leavenworth, young women had arrived from Ireland to join the Sisters of Charity. Three groups arrived between Nov. 1858 and Feb. 1859. In 1892, two Irish-born sisters returned to Ireland to recruit new members. Three months later, they brought back 44 new candidates. Between 1858 and 1895, the community grew to 200 members, 114 from Ireland.
In 1903 two sisters traveled to Ireland again, bringing back 42 new postulants to the Motherhouse.
It’s a great read, not just of general history but of a personal stories too. Have a look in the Catholic Key
The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth will conclude their Jubilee year on November 18, 2008 with a Mass celebrated by Kansas City Kansas Archbishop Joseph Naumann at Annunciation Chapel in the Motherhouse.
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