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2 unusual facts about Sisters of St. Francis


Ashford University

The idea for this school formed when Father James A. Murray invited the Sisters of St. Francis to help teach in Clinton, Iowa.

Caroline Islands

In 1906 twelve fathers and twelve brothers were working in thirteen stations, and several Sisters of St. Francis left Luxembourg to take charge of the ten schools, in which were 262 children.


Ascension Health

Ascension Health was created on November 1, 1999 by the union of the Daughters of Charity National Health System based in St. Louis, Missouri and the Sisters of St. Joseph Health System based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian

Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian is a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge, which is part of the Taylor & Francis Group.

Bentvueghels

Haskell, Francis, Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy, Yale University Press, 1980.

Blata l-Bajda

Notable buildings include the Chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and St. Joseph School, a school run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition.

Church and Convent of St. Francis

San Francisco houses over 3,500 works of colonial art, of varied artistic styles and techniques, most notably those of the famous Quito School of art, which had it genesis precisely here.

Colonial American military history

As a result of the war, Maine fell to the New Englanders with the defeat of Father Sébastien Rale at Norridgewock and the subsequent retreat of the native population from the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers to St. Francis and Becancour, Quebec.

Deborah Turness

Born in Hertfordshire, England, Turness was educated at St Francis' College and the Knights Templar School in Baldock, Hertfordshire.

Elzéar of Sabran

Saint Elzéar of Sabran, T.O.S.F., Baron of Ansouis, Count of Ariano, was born in the castle of Saint-Jean-de-Robians, near Cabrières-d'Aigues in Provence, southern France, in 1285.

Fort Wayne Freedom

He had worked previously as an assistant coach at the University of St. Francis, an NAIA institution, and NCAA Division II Hillsdale College in Michigan.

Franciscan Alliance, Inc.

Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel founded the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1863 in Olpe, Germany.

George A. Gillett

George Gillett and Arthur 'Bolla' Francis rescued Anglo-Welsh (British Lions) player Percy Down who had fallen into the sea, keeping him afloat until a rope was lowered from the ship upon which Down was about to return to Great Britain.

Gerardus Odonis

After he had entered the Order of St. Francis, most probably at Châteauroux, and consequently had belonged to the Touraine province of the order, he became a member of the Aquitanian province and still belonged to this latter (without, however, being provincial minister) when he was elected minister general of the order, 10 June 1329, at the general chapter.

Glynis Roberts

Roberts was born in very humble circumstances in the rural parish of St David and is a product of the renowned St. Joseph's Convent of St. George's, founded in 1875 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny.

H. G. Francis

They reached gold status 120 times and platinum status six times.

Hippolyte Hélyot

After spending his youth in study, he entered, in his twenty-fourth year, the friary of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, founded in Picpus-—now part of Paris—-by his uncle, Jérôme Hélyot, a canon regular of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher.

I due Foscari

Toye, Francis (1931), Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works, New York: Knopf

I vespri siciliani

Toye, Francis (1962), Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works, New York: Knopf, 1931

Ida B. Robinson

African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement: An Annotated Bibliography By Sherry Sherrod DuPree Published by Taylor & Francis, 1996 ISBN 0-8240-1449-9, ISBN 978-0-8240-1449-0, 650 pages

International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research

IAHR publishes the International Journal of River Basin Management together with the International Association of Hydrological Sciences and INBO and in partnership with Taylor & Francis.

IAHR publishes two international scientific journals in collaboration with Taylor & Francis from its headquarters in Madrid, Spain – the Journal of Hydraulic Research, the Journal of River Basin Management and the Journal of Water Engineering and Research.

Little Brothers of St. Francis

Curran, who was then employed by the Opera Company of Boston, felt called to follow a life of prayer and service among the poor.

Little Devil

the personnel on the song included Al Caiola, Bucky Pizzarelli and Charles Macy on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, Phil Kraus on percussion, David "Panama" Francis on drums, Romeo Penque, Sol Schillinger and Herman Yorks on sax.

Mayslake Peabody Estate

The entire complex features the Tudor Revival style 39-room Mayslake Hall, its retreat wing, and the Portiuncula Chapel, a replica of the Chapel of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy.

Mount Saint Mary's Hospital

The system expanded in 2002 with the addition of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Health System.

Music of World War I

After a few months of war and rising numbers of deaths, the recruitment songs all but disappeared, and the 1915 "Greatest hits" collection published by Francis and Day contains no recruitment songs at all.

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

Professors, scientific officers and students of this institute publish many of papers in journals of international repute from publishers like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Taylor & Francis etc.

Oldenburg, Indiana

In 1851, Mother Theresa Hackelmeier (1827-1860) founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg who would open numerous schools in the Midwest.

Order of the Ladies of the Cord

This rope with knots had been added by her step-grandfather Francis I, Duke of Brittany to his arms in honor of St. Francis its patron saint and her father Francis II, Duke of Brittany had continued the emblem.

Peter Mayo

He sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several international journals including International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Transformative Education (Sage), Policy Futures in Education (Symposium), Encylopaideia (ClueB, Bologna) and Educational Philosophy and Theory (Wiley-Blackwell).

Poor Sisters of St. Francis

Schervier formed a small community with four companions, all members of the Third Order of St. Francis, in the city of Aachen, in the Kingdom of Prussia, in 1845.

Postage stamps and postal history of Oltre Giuba

The same process was followed for the Italian commemorative issues of the time - the "Victor Emmanuel" issue, the "St. Francis" issue.

QR algorithm

The QR transformation was developed in the late 1950s by John G.F. Francis (England) and by Vera N. Kublanovskaya (USSR), working independently.

Religion and homosexuality

Macnutt, Francis (2006) "Can Homosexuality Be Healed?" publisher 'Chosen Books', ISBN 0-8007-9409-5

Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration

The Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration is a papal congregation of the Roman Catholic Church, founded on July 20, 1863 by Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel in Olpe, Germany.

Sisters of St. Mary

Anna Katherine (later Mother Mary Odilia) Berger was born in Regen, Bavaria.

St. John Providence Health System

The system started in 1999 with the merger of the Providence Health System and the St. John Health System into the St. John Health System due to the merger of the two systems' respective Roman Catholic congregation sponsors, the Daughters of Charity and the Sisters of St. Joseph, into Ascension Health.

St. Paul's Secondary School

St. Paul's Secondary School was founded in 1960 by the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres as an extension of St. Paul's Convent School to meet the growing needs of science education of girls in Hong Kong.

Suspicious Cheese Lords

Cervantes composed a setting of "The Prayer of St. Francis" which the Lords performed for Pope Benedict XVI on April 17, 2008, during an inter-religious meeting at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington.

The Flowers of St. Francis

8 - How Brother Francis and Brother Leon experienced those things that are perfect happiness.

Via Christi Health

The first congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph was formed by six women under the direction of a Jesuit priest, Jean Pierre Medaille, in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, in 1650.

William B. Francis

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Francis was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1915).

Wolf of Gubbio

The wolf of Gubbio was a wolf that, according to the Fioretti di San Francesco, terrorized the city of Gubbio until it was tamed by St. Francis of Assisi acting on behalf of God.


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