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.. ALE, M OUR SISTERS' GOLDEN JUBILEE Since the year 1927 marks the Golden jubilee of the Dominican Sisters' arrival in lVIichigan, it is only fitting that the Year Book of 1927 should express the estimation in which we hold their zealous labors. It was from Holy Cross Convent, founded under Blessed Jordan of Saxony in 1237, in Ratisbon, Bavaria, that four nuns departed in 1853 to establish a convent in America. Their first foundation was a new Holy Cross Convent in Brooklyn Hllil a few years later lVIother Augustine, one of the four pioneers from Bavaria, established Holy Rosary Convent on Second Street, lVIanhattan. In 1877, in response to a11 appeal from Traverse City, five Sisters came from Holy Rosary Convent to take up their work there. Mother Boniface, the only one of this group now living, was in charge of the small band. They were accompanied by Mother Aquinata, who stayed with them a few weeks helping them adjust their new home. These Pioneer Sisters were soon joined by others, and, aided by them, made rapid progress in their missionary works. 4
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5 .e X In R I I .X :A Soon other missions were opened, some of the earliest being in Bay City and Adrian. As the number of Sisters engaged in missionary work in Michigan increased it became more convenient and desirable that they should be organized as a separate province. Accordingly in 1885, the Saint Joseph Province of Dominican Sisters in Michigan was officially established with its Priory at Traverse City. Nine years later the Sisters of Saint Dominic of the Diocese of Grand Rapids were canonically organized as a separate community, known as the Congregation of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. For many years Saint John's Home was the Motherhouse of the community. The Sisters realized, however, that their increasing numbers would soon require a larger separate building. In 1917 they purchased the present Marywood site on the outskirts of the city, where by 1922 they had completed the fine, large, modern structure which is the Motherhouse of the community, and also their College and Academy for girls. The signal growth of the community may be estimated from the fact that whereas fifty years ago they had but five Sisters and an initial enrollment of ten students, the Congregation of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart has now almost five hundred members who are teaching about ten thousand children in the sixty-two schools which the Sisters conduct in Michigaii, Wisconsin, and New Mexico. May the past be prophetic of a future even more abundantly blessed by Divine Providence! LTHE STAFF. 'N M other to each, A lways sincere, R eady to teach Y ear after yearg When we are gone O ff far away, O ften we'll think of thee, D ear S. H. A. -TH ERESA MILLER, '28. 1 V , l .
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