Our History

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Foundations

First Daughter-House: Monastery Immaculate Conception, Ferdinand, Indiana

FOUNDED:

1867

PIONEERS:

Four young sisters; Sr. Benedicta Berns (age 22) superior.

Later elected first prioress.

INDEPENDENCE:

1871


Second Daughter-House: St. Scholastica Priory, Covington, Louisiana

FOUNDED:

1870

PIONEERS:

Eight sisters; Sister Teresa Timmers, superior; Sr. Scholastica Hoeveler, first prioress.

INDEPENDENCE:

1873

2nd Group:

1873 from Covington, Kentucky to New Orleans, Louisiana.

PIONEERS:

Five sisters; Sister Gertrude Bauer, superior.

INDEPENDENCE:

1877

MERGER:

1877

Named St. Benedict Convent, New Orleans, Louisiana. Later moved to Covington, Louisiana and named St. Scholastica Priory.

PRIORY CLOSED:

1998


Third Daughter-house: Sacred Heart Monastery, Cullman, Alabama.

FOUNDED:

Tuscumbia, Alabama, 1881

PIONEERS:

Five sisters; Sr. Evangelista Pfraengle, superior.

Given to the Benedictine sisters from St. Leo Monastery, Florida in 1900.

2nd Group:

1886 from Covington, Kentucky to Birmingham, Alabama.

PIONEERS:

Seven sisters; Sister Evangelista Pfraengle, (sent from Tuscumbia) superior.

INDEPENDENCE:

1902. Two communities from Florida and Kentucky united and became Sacred Heart Monastery, Cullman, Alabama. Sister Ottilia Haas from Covington, first prioress.