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unusual facts about Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition



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.

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.

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.

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.

Colegio San Conrado

The Colegio San Conrado, founded in 1948 by the Capuchin Franciscans and Sisters of St. Joseph from Brentwood, New York, is operated by the Catholic Church of the Diocese of Ponce.

Franciscan Alliance, Inc.

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

Franciscan College of the Immaculate Conception

The Franciscan College of the Immaculate Conception (FCIC), a privately owned college maintained and developed by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration based in Olpe, Germany through the cooperation of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.

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.

Greater Sudbury municipal election, 2010

With the completion of the new Sudbury Regional Hospital facility, the closure of the St. Joseph's site was imminent — however, despite the city's longtime interest in acquiring the property due to its adjacency to Bell Park and Lake Ramsey, the Sisters of St. Joseph sold the site in 2010 to Panoramic Properties, a condominium developer from Niagara Falls.

Mount Saint Mary's Hospital

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

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.

Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille

Its forebearer, the The Congregation of Sisters of Saint Joseph was started in Le Puy, France by the Jesuit Jean Paul Médaille and accepted by the bishop, Mgr. de Maupas, on October 15, 1650.

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.

Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon

In 1885, several young women in Jordan, Oregon, who were members of a German schismatic religious colony from Minnesota began to doubt the beliefs of the group and sent to the Benedictines of Mount Angel Abbey for advice.

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. Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal

Founded in 1956 by the Indian Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery, an order founded at Chambéry, France in 1812, it is administered by the Sisters of St. Joseph's Convent, Idgah Hills, Bhopal.

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.

St. Trudpert's Abbey

The Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Trudpert took over the premises in 1919-1920 after their expulsion from Alsace and have undertaken major construction work not only on the monastic buildings themselves but also on hospital and other medical building projects.

Trudpert's Abbey (Kloster St. Trudpert) is a former Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, now the principal house of the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Trudpert.

Thomas Weinandy

The Secretariat for Doctrine had previously criticized a book on the Trinity by St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson of Fordham University in New York, leading to a defense of Johnson by many theologians as well as Fordham faculty.

Veronica of the Passion

The following year, she went to France where she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, which had been founded in 1836 by Saint Emily de Vialar.

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.

West Park Secondary School

It was reopened as Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School in September 1988, which they were once called Bishop Francis Marrocco Catholic High School (opened in 1986) and St. Joseph Commercial School (founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1880 and was renamed to Thomas Merton Academy in 1985).


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