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1869 - Waterbury

1950 - New Haven

1957 - Stamford

On August 22, 1957, the foundress, Sister Saint Daniel (Harriet Louise Cosgrove), Superior and Sister Saint Thomas of Canterbury (Elizabeth Shanahan), Sister Saint Lucille of Jesus (Dorothy Lucile Guilbault), Sister Saint Margaret Catherine (Anne Margaret Moore), Sister Saint Mary Anthony (…

1860 - Bourbonnais

On August 10, 1860, the General Council of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame accepted its first mission in the United States, in the village of Bourbonnais, Illinois. Monsignor James Duggan, Bishop of Chicago, asked the Mother House in Montreal to send Sisters to teach there. Bishop Duggan had been…

1865 - Kankakee

In 1865, Father Côté, pastor of Bourbonnais, asked the Congrégation de Notre-Dame to send sisters to teach the young girls in Kankakee, Illinois. The request was accepted with the condition that a residence be built for the sisters. Motivated by Father J. Langlois, pastor of Kankakee, the…

1882 - Chicago

During the 1860’s, a large number of French-Canadians arrived in Chicago. These new immigrants established themselves in the city’s west end near a parish which had been founded in 1864 and had been pastored for 20 years by Father Jacques Côté. At the third request of the parish priest, the…

1883 - Saint Anne

1958 - South Holland

1893 - Chicago

In 1893, a French-Canadian parish, Saint-Louis-de-Pullman, was established in Chicago. That same year, the Sisters of the Congregation arrived in the parish to provide primary school education in a room in the attic of the presbytery. Eighteen months later, this space became too small and a…

1951 - Kankakee

1965 - Kankakee

1964 - Kankakee

1881 - Lewiston

On August 15, 1881, five Congrégation de Notre-Dame sisters were sent to open a mission in Lewiston, Maine. They were: the Superior, Sister Saint-Marie-Françoise (Catherine Deane), Sister Saint-Marie-de-Lourdes (Frances Rebecca Honey), Sister Saint-Marie-Angèle (Mary Hawkins), Sister Saint-…

1866 - Portland

1953 - Short Hills

1903 - Staten Island

During the winter of 1903, William Miller-Jones met Mother Saint-Anaclet (Marie-Pulchérie Cormier), the newly elected Superior General of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, to discuss the lack of Catholic schools in Staten Island. Father of four girls and resident of this New York City borough, he…

1931 - Staten Island

1959 - Schenectady

On July 20, 1960, after five years of negotiations, Sister St. Philippa (Genevieve McMahon), accompanied by several of her companions, arrived in Schenectady, New York, where The Most Reverend William Aloysius Scully, Bishop of Albany welcomed them to the school which was attached to the convent…

1945 - New York

Institution under the direction of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame from 1945 (formerly the Sisters of Charity of New York)

1886 - New York

1886 - New York

At the request of Father Frédérick Tétreault of the Saint Jean Baptiste parish in New York City, the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame agreed to establish a mission there. Three Sisters arrived on January 28, 1886, two to teach at Saint Jean Baptiste School and one to begin Villa Maria…

1955 - Cleveland

1912 - Providence

1890 - United States

Saint Mary Convent was founded in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A when Father J. Sullivan, pastor, asked that the Congrégation de Notre-Dame open a school in the same building the Ursulines had occupied when they taught the boys and girls at Saint Mary. The Ursulines had been obliged to…

1929 - Providence

In 1928, Father James A. Craig, aware that his parish, Saint Sebastian, had been growing for the past fifteen years, approached the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame who were already providing education in two missions in Providence (Saint Mary and Saint Anthony) and requested their help…

1879 - Saint Johnsbury

1869 - Saint Albans

1949 - Tobata (Kitakyūshū)

Meiji Gakuen has a unique history as a Catholic school. In 1910, it was founded by Keiijiro Yasukawa and Kenjiro Matsumoto as an elementary school and a branch of Meiji Technical School (now Kyushu University of Technology). When it was established, there were twenty-three students. At the end…

1938 - Fukushima

Sakura no Seibo Gakuen in Fukushima, Japan, is a modest Congrégation de Notre-Dame school. Since 1938 (barring the five years of World War II the Pacific), it has continued its mission sustained by the patience, dreams and prayers of the sisters. In 1932, five sisters were missioned to Fukushima…

1961 - Tokyo

In September 1956, the community purchased land at 595-603 Shimoishihara in Chofu. Five years later, in January 1961, permission was granted by the government to open a kindergarten on the property. Its first principal was Sister Saint-Jean-de-la-Lande (Adéline Langlois). The kindergarten,…