Features
Welcome to our features page. Here, we will share with you updates on what is currently happening within our Congregation. Feel free to take time to explore the area.
A grand structure: Providence Hall
Providence Hall, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, rose from the ashes of the convent built by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin after a horrific fire on Feb. 7, 1889. The annals of the Sisters of Providence describe the start…
Sister Susanne Gallagher
Download complete interview with Sister Susanne Gallagher (PDF) Q. Why did you choose to become a Sister of Providence? A. Whenever I look back and remember how it was that I knew that I wanted to be a Sister of…
Sister Mary Ann McCauley
Download complete Interview with Sister Mary Ann McCauley (PDF) Q. Why did you choose to become a Sister of Providence? A. Being a Terre Haute native, the Sisters of Providence were the closest to me. I was taught by the…
Foundation Day – Oct. 22, 2010
Happy Foundation Day! Happy 170th anniversary of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College! In the name of the Sisters of Providence and our Providence Associates, I extend a warm welcome to all present here…
Sister Ann Casper
Download Complete Interview with Sister Ann Casper (PDF) Q. Why did you choose to become a Sister of Providence? A. I had a very easy vocation discernment, I guess you would say. In second grade, I already had thought about…
Mother, grandmother and sister?
This article is reprinted from the fall 2010 issue of HOPE. A woman can only become a Sister of Providence if she is young, has never been married and is generally willing to cut ties with her family, right? Not…
Sister Mary Mundy
Download Complete Interview with Sister Mary Mundy Q. Why did you choose to become a Sister of Providence? A. That’s a good question. Three generations of the Mundy family ahead of me were Sisters of Providence so I heard about…
Sister Mary Catherine Guiler
Download Complete Interview with Sister Mary Catherine Guiler Q. Why did you choose to become a Sister of Providence? A. The grade school I attended in Washington, D.C., was staffed by the Holy Cross Sisters and from the moment I…
Nuns of the Battlefield
“Nuns of the Battlefield” was written by Ellen Ryan Jolly and originally published in 1927. This monograph highlights the women’s religious congregations that ministered to soldiers during the Civil War. In the foreward, William A. Hickey, then-bishop of Providence, R.I.,…
Hand of Providence
“The Hand of Providence” by the Rev. John F. McShane was published in 1949. The frontispiece of this small book states, “A tribute to the Civil War nurses of the Sisters of Providence, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., whose five years of…
Vision of Mother Theodore
While searching for some information in the files of Mother Superior Gertrude Clare Owens, Archives volunteer Sister Marie Grace Molloy found this very interesting statement concerning a vision of Mother Theodore that Mrs. Michael Owens had in 1910. It was…
Lest We Forget
“Lest We Forget,” a short history of the service provided by the Sisters of Providence during the Civil War, was published in 1931 by Providence Press. It was written by Sister Mary Theodosia Mug. This book may be small, but…