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