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What order of nuns did Mary Mackillop belong to?
Mary founded an order of nuns called the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
What did Elizabeth Ann Seton do for a living?
She founded and led an order of nuns.
What challenges did the nuns in the order called Sisters of St. Joseph face?
The Ursulines are Sisters not nuns. They were founded in the sixteenth century and were the very first Order that was founded that was not composed of cloistered nuns, instead they were founded for the education of young girls so the Sisters were not to be cloistered but to be out in the community. There was Episcopal opposition to a religious order of women that was not strictly cloistered, at that time.
What was Mother Teresa's order of nuns called?
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity.
Claire founded a religious order the poor Claires?
Yes, St. Clare founded the Poor Clares, a Franciscan order of contemplative nuns who live a life of prayer, community, and joy.
What was Saint Clare of Assisi's achievement?
She founded an order of nuns that became known as the Poor Clares that worked with the poor.
Who founded a monastery for nuns?
saint benedict
Was Elizabeth Ann Seton a Dominican?
No, she was not a Dominican. She founded an order of nuns called the Sisters of Charity of which she became the mother superior.
What is an Ursaline Nun?
The correct spelling is Ursuline. An Ursuline nun is an order of nuns founded in 1537 by St. Angela Merici at Brescia, Italy. These teaching nuns devote their lives to the education of girls.
What order of new nuns did Mother Teresa start?
Mother Teresa founded the Missionary Sisters of Charity. Actually, the Missionaries of Charity are not just sisters. The group also has priests, brothers and lay volunteers who are both Catholic and non Catholic.
What saint is given credit for beginning the Catholic schools in America?
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton founded the Catholic School system in America and founded an order of nuns - the Sisters of Charity - to run them.
Was St. Clare a nun?
Yes, first female in the Franciscan Order- sometimes called Poor Clares.
