Mount St Joseph Academy - Sheaf Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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The Sisters of Saint joseph 1650-FRANCE 18471PHILADELPHIA 1947-CHESTNUT HILL The scene of the first reception ceremony of the Sisters of St. Joseph was the chapel of the orphanage of Le Puy, France on October 15, 1650. The bishop of Le Puy, Rt. Rev. Henry de Maupas and Rev. John Peter Medaille, SJ., coffounders of the Congregation, recommended its extension to the other French Bishops with the result that in an incredibly short time, convents of the Sisters were extablished in nearly every diocese in France. During the French Revolution the Sisters suffered persecution and some of them even underwent martyrdom on the guillotine. Later the Com' munity was entirely disbanded, the Sisters returning to their own homes. As soon as peace was restored, however, the congregation was refestablished at Lyons in 1807 under the guidance of Mother St. John Fontbonne. It was from this convent in Lyons, that eight Sisters, at the request of Bishop Rosati of St. Louis, set out as missionaries to America. After a long and stormy voyage, the Sisters arrived safely in the port of New Orleans from which city by steamboat on the Mississippi and stagefcoach overland, they traveled to St. Louis, where the first foundation of the community in the United States was made at Carondolet. Ten years later in May 1847, Bishop Francis P. Kendrick of Philadelphia, appealed for the Sisters to come to his diocese. Mother St. John Fournier, one of the first group of Sisters to come from France, accompanied by two Sisterfcompanions, responded to the request. On their arrival in Philadelphia the Sisters' first charge was the care of St. John's Orphanage, then located in the Gothic Mansion on Chestnut Street near Thirteenth. From this simple beginning, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. joseph has expanded in numbers and activities. Today from their Motherhouse at Mount St. Joseph, Chestnut Hill, the Sisters go to many dioceses to carry on the work begun by Mother St. john Fournier just one hundred years ago. 7