Along with the doorbell ministry, the Visitation sisters reach out to children and families.

In 1862 the Visitation Sisters established a convent and academy for girls.

The Visitation Sisters left in 1867 because of financial problems that resulted from the building of a new school.

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With more than 300 Facebook fans already, the Visitation sisters feel their efforts are achieving "heightened awareness," Mullin said.

The first Catholic school was established in Keokuk by the Visitation Sisters in 1852.

The Visitation Sisters came to Rock Island from Maysville, Kentucky in 1898.

It was after this that she at last became a professed member of the Visitation Sisters with the new name of "Françoise-Thérèse".

The Visitation Sisters came to Ireland in 1955 and founded a Monastery at Stamullen, Co.

In 1987 the Visitation Sisters relocated to Rockville, Virginia (where they continue to bake altar breads as their main source of income).

St. Peter's Parish desired a parochial school, but the Visitation Sisters' rule forbade them from teaching in parochial schools.

During the time of the Visitation sisters, the monastery was often visited by Don Vincenzo Pallotti, a future canonized saint.

Mount de Sales Academy was founded in 1852 by the Visitation Sisters as a boarding school for girls, but now serves as a college-preparatory school.

In 1866 Visitation Sisters from Baltimore, Maryland came to Richmond, Virginia at the request of Bishop John McGill.

Called Extraordinary Ordinary Lives: Vocation Stories of Minnesota Visitation Sisters, it “explains who we are, where we’re from, how we got here and why we’ve stayed.

Visitation is a Catholic school originally guided by the Visitation Sisters, but the school community includes many students and faculty who are not of the Roman Catholic faith.

She was formed first of all by the Benedictines of the Blessed Sacrament in Paris and then by the Visitation Sisters of Mt. St. Andrew (Isère).

The new Seminary, located in a former convent of the Visitation Sisters, at 19th Street and Cass Avenue in Saint Louis, was the first site to bear the name Kenrick Seminary.

Martin entered - at the age of 23 - a convent that the Poor Clares managed but she resided there for a couple of months before she decided to make an attempt to become part of the Visitation Sisters.

The old Visitation monastery passed into the hands of the American College thanks to the express will of Pope Pius IX, who used to serve Mass there for the Visitation sisters as a young boy.

Members of the order are also known as the Salesian Sisters (not to be confused with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco) or, more commonly, as the Visitandines or Visitation Sisters.

First educated in a convent by the Visitation Sisters, she left school after the death of her mother and by age seventeen she was running her father's household and caring for the girls in her father's mill and estate.

Though her mother taught in the public school system, Ita Ford was educated in parochial schools, beginning at age five in the Visitation Academy in Bay Ridge, run by the Visitation Sisters, a semi-cloistered order.

The main Catholic church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, was built in 1800, then rebuilt in 1837 (across the street) one block north of Church Street on East Second Street, where it still stands along with a school and convent established by the Visitation Sisters.