The Archives office for the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph set up a booth during the Daviess County Memorabilia Day on July 11 at the Daviess County Public Library. Groups were allowed to share their memorabilia as part of the day celebrating the county’s bicentennial. Heidi Taylor-Caudill, archivist for the Ursuline Sisters, ran the…
Sisters of the Past
Investment Day Brides
During her formation period to become a consecrated sister, the day of a woman’s entrance into novitiate has traditionally been called “investment day.” Novitiate, among many other things, would be the day a woman would begin to wear a formal religious habit (hence the word “investment”). For several decades with the Ursuline Sisters of Mount…
The Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery
November is traditionally the month the church has dedicated to prayers for the dead. Of course this is something the church does all year round, but this time of the year is set aside specifically to remember those who have gone before us. Not only does the changing of the season mean the death of…
Centennial of St Edward, Jeffersontown
Speech given by Sister Victoria Brohm on the occasion of the Centennial at St. Edward, Jeffersontown, January 27, 1984. This paper or talk is the collaboration of about five of my former schoolmates and I. Namely, Harry Brohm, my brother, Mary Hawes, Mary First, and Amelia and Justina Heimann–we had fun recalling “Big Oaks from…
Mother Innocentia Schueller, OSU
The Ursuline Sisters of Belleville merged with Mount Saint Joseph in 2005. Mother Innocentia was a sister of this community. Mother Innocentia was born on July 20, 1880, as the second youngest child of a family of seven at Aachen, Germany where her father was a district judge. When baptized she received the names of…
Greater Owensboro Summer Music Camp
Every summer from 1975 until 2006 Mount Saint Joseph hosted the annual Greater Owensboro Summer Music Camp which gave youngsters two weeks to receive music instruction in a relaxed setting. Maple Mount proved to be a perfect venue for students to swim, take walks, play sports and do crafts between practicing and lessons. Originally sponsored…
Ursuline Academy, Paola, Kansas
History compiled by Sister Dee Long, OSU In 1894, two Ursuline Sisters from Louisville, Kentucky came to Paola to investigate the possibility of establishing an Academy and Convent. Originally, the sisters were interested in educating the Indians of Eastern Kansas. By 1894, however, most of the Indians of Miami County were headed in the direction…
Postcards of Maple Mount
In the first half of the twentieth century, postcards were periodically printed of scenes from the Maple Mount campus. These pictures of the Academy Building, Chapel, Bloemer Building, Our Lady of Prompt Succor, gardens and aerial shots bring back memories of days gone by. Here is a sampling of these cards that show how Mount…
South American Missions
In the 1960s, religious communities in North America began to send sisters to South America missions. The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph responded to the call of Pope John XXIII to serve Latin America. Their first South American missions were San Ignacio School, Santiago, Chile, and St. Thomas School, Caracas, Venezuela. The following is…
Sister Elizabeth Dye
The following biography of Sister Elizabeth Dye was written by Sister Rita Lavigne for the Paola necrology book used in the Mount Saint Joseph mother house chapel. Gladys Mary Dye, one of two children of William and Lillian Dye, was born in Nowata, Oklahoma, on November 30, 1911. She grew up living in the same…