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With Hearts Expanded: Transformations In The Lives Of Benedictine Women, St. Joseph, Minnesota, 1957 To 2000, Evin Rademacher Osb, Emmanuel Renner Osb, Olivia Forster Osb, Carol Berg Osb Jan 2000

With Hearts Expanded: Transformations In The Lives Of Benedictine Women, St. Joseph, Minnesota, 1957 To 2000, Evin Rademacher Osb, Emmanuel Renner Osb, Olivia Forster Osb, Carol Berg Osb

Saint Benedict’s Monastery Books

In With Lamps Burning, Sister Grace McDonald traced the growth of Saint Benedict’s Monastery from its establishment in Minnesota in 1857 to its centennial in 1957. It is the purpose of this sequel to capture the exciting and often troublesome challenges that faced this community in the last half of the twentieth century. It is a story of moving from a stable and predictable era to an explosive era of expanded knowledge, information, and communications that resulted in irreversible societal changes effected by such grassroots movements as civil rights, women’s rights, and environmental concerns, and by a Christian religious …


Behind The Beginnings: Benedictine Women In America, M. Incarnata Girgen Osb Jan 1981

Behind The Beginnings: Benedictine Women In America, M. Incarnata Girgen Osb

Saint Benedict’s Monastery Books

This study is an attempt to present two sisters who played parts in establishing the Benedictines in America: Mother Benedicta Riepp, the foundress of Eichstätt Benedictine Sisters in America, and Mother Willibalda Scherbauer, who brought them to Minnesota. To accomplish this purpose, the greater part of the study consists of letters to, by, or about Mother Benedicta and Mother Willibalda.


With Lamps Burning, M. Grace Mcdonald Osb Jan 1957

With Lamps Burning, M. Grace Mcdonald Osb

Saint Benedict’s Monastery Books

It is the purpose of this book to trace the growth of the Convent of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota, from its establishment to the present time. In doing so, the author has attempted to show how a frontier country modified the character of an Old World Benedictine convent with its centuries of tradition, and how at the same time this religious community influenced in its turn the cultural and religious life of Minnesota and the Midwest. The author has found it necessary, therefore, to describe the environment – national, political, and religious – into which the sisters ventured. …


Harvest: A Picture Panorama Of The Bountiful Increase Given By God To The Sisters Of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, In Their First Hundred Years, 1857-1957, Mariella Gable Jan 1957

Harvest: A Picture Panorama Of The Bountiful Increase Given By God To The Sisters Of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, In Their First Hundred Years, 1857-1957, Mariella Gable

Saint Benedict’s Monastery Books

A picture panorama of the bountiful increase given by God to the Sisters of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, in their first hundred years, 1857-1957.