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Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary
The Sisters of the Humility of Mary is a Roman Catholic religious congregation, founded at Dommartin-sous-Amance, France, in 1855. The community immigrated to the United States in 1864, and established themselves near New Bedford, Pennsylvania. This community is known as the Sisters of the Humility of Mary and is based at Villa Maria, Pennsylvania.
A separate congregation developed from the Sisters of the Humility of Mary when around 1884, five sisters founded a convent in Ottumwa, Iowa. That community is known as the Congregation of the Humility of Mary and is based in Davenport Iowa.
The founder was John Joseph Begel (b. 5 April 1817; d. 23 Jan., 1884), pastor of the two villages of Laitre and Dommartin. In 1854, three pious women offered their services for the work of teaching poor children: Marie-Antoinette Poitier, Marie Tabourat, and Mary Joseph. Begel conceived the idea of establishing a religious community, and the following year he drew up a rule which was adopted by the women and approved by the Bishop of Nancy on 29 August 1858. Poitier, who founded the society alongside Begel, took the religious name of Mary Magdelen; Tabourat took the name Mary Anna.
The object of the new congregation was the education of youth in country districts and small towns, the training of orphans, the care of the sick, and incidentally the decoration of altars in parish churches. The association increased in numbers. Soon, however, Begel's open condemnation of the policy of Napoleon III towards the Catholic church and especially towards religious institutes, brought him into disfavour with the civil authorities, and the sisters of the community were refused diplomas and prevented from opening schools.
In 1862, Louis Hoffer, a priest of Louisville, Ohio, U.S.A., applied for four sisters to teach in his school. Bishop Louis Rappe of Cleveland not only gave his approval, but invited the whole community to settle in his diocese. The sisters, accompanied by Begel, set sail 30 May 1864, and on their arrival took possession of a farm of 250 acres (1.0 km2) near New Bedford, Pennsylvania,(which had been transferred to the Cleveland diocese from the Diocese of Pittsburgh). The brought with them a statue of Mary from the convent garden at Dommartin-sous-Amance.
The farm had recently been vacated by the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, and to which they gave the name Villa Maria. It was far from a railroad, and the land was uncultivated, undrained, overgrown with brush, and dotted with sloughs, the buildings being surrounded by a marsh. Moreover, the community was destitute of resources and burdened with debt. The sisters in Ohio wore a blue woolen habit, a black veil being worn by the professed, and a white one by novices. A silver medal was suspended from the neck on a blue band, and a rosary from the girdle, which was also of blue.
The "blue nuns" went to farmhouses to protect children from contagious disease and cared for injured railroad workers in a small clinic at their motherhouse. They undertook the care of orphans and the work to which they had pledged themselves, and were soon able to enlarge the buildings (1869 and 1878), and shortly afterwards a chapel was built. The year 1884 was marked by the death of Father Begel, the venerable founder. In 1899 ground was purchased at Cleveland, Ohio, for an academy, which was chartered a few years later, in 1892, under the title of Lourdes Academy, named for Our Lady of Lourdes, and empowered to confer degrees. In 1897 it was removed to a more suitable location. In 1897, the Holy Humility of Mary Sisters (the “Blue Nuns”) took charge of St. John's parish school in Ashtabula. From 1900 to 1922 they taught at Most Pure Heart of Mary parish in Shelby.
Since Villa Maria was far from railroad facilities, a tract of sixty-three acres between Canton and Massillon, Ohio, was purchased in 1904 for the purpose of erecting a new mother-house, to be known as Mount Maria, and a college, which was opened in 1908 under the title of College of the Immaculate Conception.
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Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary
The Sisters of the Humility of Mary is a Roman Catholic religious congregation, founded at Dommartin-sous-Amance, France, in 1855. The community immigrated to the United States in 1864, and established themselves near New Bedford, Pennsylvania. This community is known as the Sisters of the Humility of Mary and is based at Villa Maria, Pennsylvania.
A separate congregation developed from the Sisters of the Humility of Mary when around 1884, five sisters founded a convent in Ottumwa, Iowa. That community is known as the Congregation of the Humility of Mary and is based in Davenport Iowa.
The founder was John Joseph Begel (b. 5 April 1817; d. 23 Jan., 1884), pastor of the two villages of Laitre and Dommartin. In 1854, three pious women offered their services for the work of teaching poor children: Marie-Antoinette Poitier, Marie Tabourat, and Mary Joseph. Begel conceived the idea of establishing a religious community, and the following year he drew up a rule which was adopted by the women and approved by the Bishop of Nancy on 29 August 1858. Poitier, who founded the society alongside Begel, took the religious name of Mary Magdelen; Tabourat took the name Mary Anna.
The object of the new congregation was the education of youth in country districts and small towns, the training of orphans, the care of the sick, and incidentally the decoration of altars in parish churches. The association increased in numbers. Soon, however, Begel's open condemnation of the policy of Napoleon III towards the Catholic church and especially towards religious institutes, brought him into disfavour with the civil authorities, and the sisters of the community were refused diplomas and prevented from opening schools.
In 1862, Louis Hoffer, a priest of Louisville, Ohio, U.S.A., applied for four sisters to teach in his school. Bishop Louis Rappe of Cleveland not only gave his approval, but invited the whole community to settle in his diocese. The sisters, accompanied by Begel, set sail 30 May 1864, and on their arrival took possession of a farm of 250 acres (1.0 km2) near New Bedford, Pennsylvania,(which had been transferred to the Cleveland diocese from the Diocese of Pittsburgh). The brought with them a statue of Mary from the convent garden at Dommartin-sous-Amance.
The farm had recently been vacated by the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, and to which they gave the name Villa Maria. It was far from a railroad, and the land was uncultivated, undrained, overgrown with brush, and dotted with sloughs, the buildings being surrounded by a marsh. Moreover, the community was destitute of resources and burdened with debt. The sisters in Ohio wore a blue woolen habit, a black veil being worn by the professed, and a white one by novices. A silver medal was suspended from the neck on a blue band, and a rosary from the girdle, which was also of blue.
The "blue nuns" went to farmhouses to protect children from contagious disease and cared for injured railroad workers in a small clinic at their motherhouse. They undertook the care of orphans and the work to which they had pledged themselves, and were soon able to enlarge the buildings (1869 and 1878), and shortly afterwards a chapel was built. The year 1884 was marked by the death of Father Begel, the venerable founder. In 1899 ground was purchased at Cleveland, Ohio, for an academy, which was chartered a few years later, in 1892, under the title of Lourdes Academy, named for Our Lady of Lourdes, and empowered to confer degrees. In 1897 it was removed to a more suitable location. In 1897, the Holy Humility of Mary Sisters (the “Blue Nuns”) took charge of St. John's parish school in Ashtabula. From 1900 to 1922 they taught at Most Pure Heart of Mary parish in Shelby.
Since Villa Maria was far from railroad facilities, a tract of sixty-three acres between Canton and Massillon, Ohio, was purchased in 1904 for the purpose of erecting a new mother-house, to be known as Mount Maria, and a college, which was opened in 1908 under the title of College of the Immaculate Conception.
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