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Treasures from Archives: Providence Press
...razed in June.) Four years later, an improved Linotype was purchased. What, exactly, did Providence Press print? Well, there were always exams for the schools, including the old Academy, the predecessor to today’s Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. There were prayers, death notices, place cards, menus and much larger jobs including Les Bois, the college’s annual; Fagots, the college newspaper; the Aurora, the college magazine; Alumnae News; and The Bugle Call, the missionary magazine of the Congregation. Mr. W. H. Niccum was...
A rest for weary bones
...this side of earth on May 14, 1856, she was laid to rest in the first cemetery of the Congregation that was located near today’s St. Anne Shell Chapel. In death as in life, Mother Theodore’s weary bones have never really received much rest. A new shrine will allow those bones to find a final resting place, just like the bones of Joseph found their rest in the Promised Land. Because the land near the chapel wasn’t the ideal location...
Sister Beth Kelso (formerly Sister Thomas Aquinas)
...peace in her daily routine of early rising, morning prayer in the health-care chapel and participating in community activities. As she neared the end of her life’s pilgrimage, her prayer had been heard: she had indeed lived and died as a Sister of Providence. We are not apt to see her like again,” concluded Sister Mary Roger. The Mass of Christian burial for Sister Beth was celebrated Sept. 26, with the Rev. Daniel Hopcus preceding. She was preceded in death...
Sister Eileen Ann Kelley
...her sister, Evelyn. In closing, Sister Mary Ann said, “I feel a little like the evangelist who said that there are many other things I could say about Eileen Ann, but she would want us to move on. Words from the Communion Hymn we sang shortly after learning about Sister Eileen Ann’s death Saturday morning sum up well how she lived her life: ‘We walk by faith, and not by sight: No gracious words we hear Of him who spoke...
Foundation Day gems from the past
...in early February of 1949 with her little heifer Grisset and was taken in by Mother Theodore. She came to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to take care of cows. A later entry on the 27th said, “Death carries off our old Marie.” Marie apparently suffered from pleurisy.) 1850 – We learn that S. M. Joseph is still sick. A boarder comes from Evansville. 1855 – We have just made the contract for the brick destined for the chapel which we propose to...
One continuous and continuing flow: All Saints and All Souls Days 2012
...new questions. After we die and live in a new way, do we continue to make choices — for union or isolation? For selflessness or selfishness? If heaven is both now and then, isn’t every moment an opportunity (as Deuteronomy taught long ago) to choose life, not death? If so, and if heaven is union/communion, then all those ways I have now of excluding, judging, lowering my tolerance level certainly will have an impact on my being in heaven or...
Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin
...her star to the end,” said Sister Mary Roger Madden in her commentary on Sister Eleanor. Sister Mary Eleanor was born Marilyn Barbara Galvin on Dec. 3, 1926 to Joseph and Mary Downing Galvin in Malden, Massachusetts. One of four children, she was preceded in death by brothers Lorimer and Neil. She is survived by one sister who is also a Sister of Providence, Sister Michaela Galvin. Growing up, Marilyn was a member of Sacred Heart parish and attended Cheverus...
Sister Anne Doherty (formerly Sister Dennis)
...Certainly, that interpretation applies to Sister Anne Doherty whose death last Sunday evening released her from living with Alzheimer’s, which robbed her of the vivacious, spirited and always-in-control personality that many of us knew. In Anne’s case, this short reading also captures her nearly 50 years of ministry as an educator and a clinical psychologist. Her years in education focused on children and her lifelong clinical interests were directed toward families with children, the rural poor and elderly and the...
Sister Anne Doherty dies; was 14th general superior of Sisters of Providence
...at community Mental Health Center in Batesville, Ind.; and clinical and school psychologist for Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries in West Terre Haute, Ind. In her retirement, she served as a driver at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Her final ministry was one of prayer. Survivors include a sister, Eileen Munshower of Bozeman, MT, and a brother, James Doherty of Beech Grove, IN, and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Paul M. Doherty and John P. Doherty and two...
Sister Ann Denise Reger
...for Sister Ann Denise Reger who died March 12, 2013. Ann Dolores Reger was born in Chicago on May 5, 1918, “Cinco de Mayo day,” as she would remind persons when she told her birth date. She was the sixth and last child of Joseph and Helen Reger. As a child she was proud to tell others that she had three brothers and two sisters: Fred, Frank, Joe, Marie and Theresa (all of whom preceded her in death). She also...
Sister Agnes Eileen O’Brien
...had one sister, Marie O’Brien Hill, who preceded her in death. The O’Briens were members of Saint Sylvester Parish and later of Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, and the girls were educated by the Sisters of Providence in both schools. Later Eileen attended Providence High School where she graduated in 1933. In August of 1933, two months after her graduation, Eileen was accepted into the postulancy of the Sisters of Providence. A few months later she received the...
Sister Ruth Sampson (formerly Sister Constance Mary)
...the age of 85. What was the source of that spirit of freedom? Was it received from her parents – Raymond and Constance Amirault Sampson who gave birth to Ruth Evelyn on Feb. 21, 1928 in Malden, Massachusetts? Was that spirit shared with her four brothers Raymond, Roland, Roger and Russell who preceded her in death? We do know that the spirit of adventure lives on in her two sisters Rose and Renette, each living in Massachusetts. Rose, another free...