by Communications Office | Feb 5, 2021 | NEWS, SC Legacy, Vision
The following is from the Winter 2021 issue of Vision. In May 1801, William Magee Seton rented a stately brick house at 8 State Street, formerly occupied by a friend of Dr. Richard Bayley, Elizabeth’s father. This move was fortunate but not preferential. Difficult...
by Communications Office | Jan 7, 2021 | NEWS, Our Sisters, SC Legacy
Ulrica O’Reilly! Sisters smile when they hear her name. Wasn’t she the Civil War heroine who defied the mob and single-handedly saved the soldiers and military hospital from the angry rioters? She’s the very one! In “Nuns of the Battlefield,” Ellen Ryan Jolly tells us...
by Director of Communications | Dec 23, 2020 | NEWS, SC Legacy
It was four full days after the snowstorm that left more than a foot of snow. Blacktop and roadbeds were visible everywhere, thanks to the expert job done by the cleaning crews. I set out for Poughkeepsie’s St. Peter’s Cemetery and met up with Associate Lisa Shay to...
by Communications Office | Dec 15, 2020 | NEWS, SC Legacy
with Reminiscences by Sr. Karen Helfenstein St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan, the first Catholic hospital in New York City, began in a brownstone on East 13th Street in 1849 and grew into a large main campus at West 12th Street and 7th Avenue. The campus included a...
by Communications Office | Nov 13, 2020 | NEWS, SC Legacy, Vision
The following is from the Autumn 2020 issue of Vision. The second Sisters of Charity mission* outside the United States was Nassau, Bahamas, an island colony of the vast British empire. When Archbishop Corrigan asked Mother Ambrosia Sweeney to send sisters...
by Communications Office | Nov 12, 2020 | NEWS, SC Legacy, Vision
The following is from the Autumn 2020 issue of Vision. The Charity of Christ impels the Sisters of Charity to provide every service in our power. In 1898, that meant opening the first Catholic secondary school in Yonkers, Seton Academic Institute. After several...
