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FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF THE ALLEGANY
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founded in Allegany, N.Y., in 1959, and members of the order were active in the Rochester area’s Catholic schools for three decades beginning in the 1930s. One of the sisters also was the pastoral administrator for two parishes in the Finger Lakes region until retiring in 2016.
Baltimore in 1890. Sisters came to Rochester in 1956 to set up a religious-education program at Fairport’s Church of the Assumption for public- school students in Fairport, Victor and Perinton. Eventually, they provided catechist training
campus at St. Bonaventure University and houses nearly 90 sisters. In past years, the sisters there also had worked as professors at the college.
Religious orders
MISSION HELPERS OF THE SACRED HEART
Mary Frances Cunningham founded for parishes throughout the diocese and for the Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart in seminarians at what is now St. Bernard’s School
MISSIONARIES OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
of Theology and Ministry. One of the sisters formerly worked in faith formation at parishes in Gates and currently serves Fairport’s Church of the Resurrection as pastoral associate.
The Missionaries of the Precious Blood was founded in 1786 by St. Gaspar del Bufalo. The rst members of the order arrived in America in the rst half of the 19th century, and served in Rochester’s Most Precious Blood Parish from 1930 until the mid-1980s.
rules for monastic life.
In the spring of 1951 four monks of the Order of St. Benedict -- or Benedictines -- moved to Pine City on the outskirts of Elmira and founded Mount Saviour Monastery. Members of
The missionaries also temporarily served at St. Anthony Parish in Rochester and St. Jerome Parish in East Rochester. Twenty years ago the missionaries established a mission house on Highland Avenue in Rochester, and the house is a place of welcome and hospitality for people on the margins of society.
the on-site sheep farm, orchard, gardens and apiary; and create works of art that are sold in the monastery’s gift shop. Visitors are welcome to pray with the monks or to stay as guests at the monastery’s retreat houses.
ORDER OF ST. BENEDICT
The Order of St. Benedict traces its roots to the community hold regular prayer throughout the sixth century when St. Benedict wrote his the day; engage in study and discussion; tend to
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