Sacred Heart Academy - Ex Corde Yearbook (Hempstead, NY)

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Tgnnhrrh igraraq. 6666666666666 it t 1 11212111111 nf the 31111111 N THE LATE SUMMER of 1856, no bells of welcome rang out for the three young Sisters of St. joseph who were to lay the foundation of their community in the Diocese of Brooklyn. Bishop Loughlin had written to the Philadelphia Motherhouse and the daughters of St. joseph had answered. . ff, f X The three Sisters arrived at St. Mary's Academy on Grand Street in Williamsburg during a period in which the Catholics were being suppressed. The society was forced to cover the habit to conceal its f s, Y identity. It was not an unfamiliar sight to see the Sisters on the way , ' 71 .- ,, ' j - K:-v., 1 to do their weeldy shopping dressed in green flowered Q-.1-,sf - 'L l - 1.1 rin 'f I Paisley shawls and hats with flowers on them. Even going ll pump at the end of the convent garden required a sunbonnet -1 -'11-X effing ' 'ji 1 if X I 'f' i s 4: J' ff' the veil of the Catholic Sister. V -N1 5 'f'?s.y, f -...i'Z.f-321'-zes+ fi - , 'f'-1-T F P ? 'A ffiii 'TC' Sister M. Baptista and Sister Hortensia with ffffijf- - - ij T' 75' ,.?1iu.'-1Ex1-a,'w..:f:f- f-- 'fi Mother Austin were to work for the next four 1 FAM 4, . W . . years until their thriving community prompted 'ffl' .. N kk . the Bishop to urge them on to Flushing for voca- XJEL jigs 1 , tions began appearing rapidly. Many were due l 5i .gf 43,,1 to the weekly conferences on religious life given Qt if '. g,,fl 1 A by the Bishop himself. ew A 7-755:11 721 I T? - fir psf ' r V-11' , 47 : r tl 'll-I' 'flll ir Q' 5: ' 1 11 if , A- Lg-1 Q 1 -f A? , -,,.1--Q- 1 ' - 6 4 o 4 Q 6 o 6 fs in -f r io ' 3 1 I . 4 Q u 1 .fm IH H H ' .1.1...1 . Illllllullll ll ull n I ll im' ll,.llllll! -in 1 ,f j ,,...-

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.nan ,.,, ,va -, f 'x ,A -' , M-7 '-H I, 4 f X t A ,ll :Ball ,,i,-- i Q f1f 'l: i' D ill! Y F: F' j -'zf fi ,Zi 9 9 9 0' 9 9 9 fi ' il' N X- sn' xsa-iifii' AE H E 5 5- ' HE HL H gl Silver bells of jubilee rang out in 1881. The Sisters had labored for AQ cs 'K X A' Av' i , Why- i' xijx 'tx ll' . ill fig? fu I. , Ill , 'A gy V i Y n-,',.u. .aQ.a-1 , V --9 7 4'::::f. twenty five years in the Diocese and had opened, staffed and were teaching in seventeen schools. It seemed that parish after parish had sought their services. In 1886, the care of the Male Asylum, at St. Marks and Albany Avenues, was entrusted to the Sisters. This asylum later became known as St. John's Home and was administered by Mother M. Baptista. Mother Theresa, who had succeeded Mother M. Baptista, resigned her trust into the capable hands of Mother Mary Louis. The institu- tions under the society's jurisdiction included St. Peter's Home for working girls, St. john's Long Island City Hospital, St. Malachy's Home in East New York and St. Iohn's Home as well as some twenty parish schools. Thus the active charity of the sisters began to unfold itself in the care of the orphaned boy, the homeless girl, and in untiring devotion to the poor, the sick and the dying in home and hospital. Such charity did not go unrewarded for vocations began to multiply to such a degree that it was imperative that a new and larger motherhouse and novitate be founded to accommodate them. Bishop McDonnell approved the purchase of the Brentwood property in 1896 and in 1903 the Sisters of Saint joseph moved into their new home, the former Hotel Austral. Before the golden jubilee of the sisters in the Diocese would be celebrated, St. joseph's Commercial High School and St. joseph Hospital, Far Rockaway were to be founded.