Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY
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CSJ69 Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY 2014 Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY 1725 Brentwood Road Brentwood, NY 11717 phone: 631-273-1187 email: archivist@csjbrentwood.org website: http://brentwoodcsj.org blog: http://brentwoodcsj.org/spirituality/daily‐prayer/ English CSJ69 Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY (CSJ) approximately 635 linear feet. Includes papers of major superiors, rules, customs, annals ofthe congregation, formation and financial records and papers of deceased sisters; also administrativerecords of minutes of general councils and chapter assemblies and various committees and diocesanrecords pertinent to the congregation. Records of institutions with which the sisters have beenassociated. Collection of photographs, audio tapes, scrapbooks, theses, publications, and artifactsdocument the history of the congregation. Papers of Mother de Chantal Keating (1833‐1917) containmaterials pertaining to her role as army nurse at Wheeling Hospital, West Virginia, during the Civil War,when she was general superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wheeling (1864‐1876). Hercorrespondence includes a letter from Theodore Roosevelt in 1898. Files include other notable Sisterssuch as Sister Christine Mulready, activist; Sister Elizabeth Johnson, theologian; Sister Tesa Fitzgerald,advocate for incarcerated women and their children. Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY 1725 Brentwood Road Brentwood, NY 11717 phone: 631-273-1187 email: archivist@csjbrentwood.org website: http://brentwoodcsj.org blog: http://brentwoodcsj.org/spirituality/daily‐prayer/ Administrative Information Open with some restrictions. Contact the archivist for further information.. hours: M‐F, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm and 1 pm – 4 pm. Research visits by appointment.. Women Religious History Sources (5th edition) Preferred Citation Text/images courtesy of the Archives of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY Scope and Content From congregation founded by Jean Pierre Médaille, SJ, in Le Puy, France, in 1650; first Americancongregation established at Carondelet (Saint Louis) Missouri, in 1836 from Lyons, France. In 1856,three Sisters established a congregation in Brooklyn, New York; one came from the Philadelphiacongregation; another from Philadelphia via Canandaigua, New York; and the third from Saint Louis viaCanandaigua. In 1903, the motherhouse was moved to its present location, and the sisters are nowidentified as the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Brentwood. Focus is education on all levels; the sisters alsoran hospitals, cared for children in five orphanages, administered schools for the deaf. Newer forms ofministry include religious and adult education, prison ministry (including Providence Houses), child care,pastoral ministry and a wide variety of social services. Individual sisters have worked with migrants, thepeople of Appalachia, and Latin America. Since 1930, the sisters have conducted schools in Puerto Rico.Total membership since 1856: 3,375; present: 465. Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY |
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approximately 635 linear feet. Includes papers of major superiors, rules, customs, annals ofthe congregation, formation and financial records and papers of deceased sisters; also administrativerecords of minutes of general councils and chapter assemblies and various committees and diocesanrecords pertinent to the congregation. Records of institutions with which the sisters have beenassociated. Collection of photographs, audio tapes, scrapbooks, theses, publications, and artifactsdocument the history of the congregation. Papers of Mother de Chantal Keating (1833‐1917) containmaterials pertaining to her role as army nurse at Wheeling Hospital, West Virginia, during the Civil War,when she was general superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wheeling (1864‐1876). Hercorrespondence includes a letter from Theodore Roosevelt in 1898. Files include other notable Sisterssuch as Sister Christine Mulready, activist; Sister Elizabeth Johnson, theologian; Sister Tesa Fitzgerald,advocate for incarcerated women and their children. |
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