The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-10-20

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spouse OF Christ, receive the reward which |
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{! We have in Brooklyn eight orders Of
6s5~ SISTERS OF CHARITY. 500 eg
Z Az early as 1928, long before Brooklyn
was raised to the episcopal dignity, We
hnd the Sisters here. They, hail from
Mount St. Vincent, New York, and their
house here is at the corner of Clifton and
Congress streets. From here issue every
morning the Sisters who teach the follow
Mary. "Star of the Sea-" Court street; st.
Philomena, Sydney Place; st. Peters,
Warren street and Assumption, York
street. At several of the above. named
places they also conduct fourishing acade-
mics, where the we'll known teaching
abilities OF the Daughters Of st. Vincent
de Paul" are exercised by the talented
Sisters. St. Joseph's Asylum for Orphan
Girls, in Congress street, near Court, is
also under their charge. Sixteen Sisters ia
this Asylum attend to the elk hundred or
phans, besides having an industrial school,
in which ninety of the girls are taught
asylum, not yet completed, will be under
their charge, and will prove great boon
to the orphan girls of Brooklyn. They
conduct, also, st. Mary's Hospital for
Women, l53 Clinton street. 1t ia the only
hospital in the city devoted exclusively to
diseases peculiar to females, and supplies q
| want long felt.
SISTERS OF MERCY.
About seventeen years ago few of these
Sisters came to Brooklyn. Now the COM
| munity numbers nearly thirty. Their con-
veRt, which cost over sixty thousand dol
| lars, is situated on Clason avenue, near
| Willoughby. They conduct hourishing
| academy of over FIVE hundred pupils.
They have charge of an orphan asylum,
of one hundred and forty scholars, in
which they are taught various branches of
l industry. The Sisters Of Mercy are very
popular in this country, and in no part Of
it are they more SO than in Brooklyn.
! @ srsTERs OF sF.JosKPH.--
Bishop Loughlin invited these Sisters to
this diocese about seventeen years ago.
On arriving here they immediately COM
a,enced work and soon the stately convent
it the popularity of the Sisters. The con-
vent was planned by one of the commune
ty and it is most beautifully situated. The
edifice is most pleasing and tho entire sur
rcundiDgs seem to breathe the air of peace
full seclusion and blessed retirement suited
to such an institution. Besides boarding.
school at Flushing, they conduct three
academies-St. Joseph's Pacific street; st.
JOseph's South Third street; and St. Mary's.
They also teach at the following schools.
St. James; st. Anne's; Our Lady of
Mercy; So. Peter and Paul's; St. Mary's
Y lar IA
They also conduct select school at FlNsh-
ing for boys, as we'll as St. Michael's f.
male school at the same place. At Flat
bush they have charge Of the female school.
The new Orphan Asylum for boys, which
is q splendid edifce, situated on Wycko9
and Albany avenues, is also under their
charge. The community now numbers
over one hundred.
SISTERS OF THE VISITATION.
dc Sales, in Brooklyn, conduct one of the
most dourishipg academies in the State.
The convent and academy are situated at
the corner of Pearl and johnson streets.
The course of study pursued at this splen-
did center of learning emiDently fits the
she may be intended. The number OF
pupils is nearly one hundred and fifty.
They also conduct boarding school ut
!; Villa de Sales, New Utrecht, Long Island,
at which place the same course is pursued.
At each place they have splendid grounds
surrounding the convent for the use of the
community, which numbers forty-four.
DoMINICANEssEs.
These nuns have hospital near Remseu
and Wyckof streets under their charge
also an orphan asylum attached to the Holy
Trinity Church. Their convent ia at the
corner of Montrose and Graham a@enues
The community numbers fifty. They con-
duct the German Catholic schools of the
diocese.
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR.
On the 18th day of September, as6s
seven Of these Sisters arrived from France
to establish branch here. They were
preceded by a good father, who purchased
three small houses in De Kalb avenue, in
which they commenced their loved work
So destitute were they of household furni-
ture that they ate their first meal in Ame-
rica-a loaf of bread which they begged
aud plenty of fresh water-from the top OF
q trunk. They then went in quest of tire
MANNED, blind, lame and infirn, peoE
apad and before the fOurth DAVIS ann had