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. |