Little Known Facts About the Sisters of St. Agnes |
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- In the elections of 1888, 1894, and 1900 the same five sisters were elected to leadership.
- For 41 years, (1864 -1905) Mother Agnes served as Superior General of the congregation. For 34 years, (1882 -1916) Mother Antonia Schmitz was a member of the general council.
- In Holy Week, 1983, three Agnesian missionaries were trapped for three hours in the line of fire as Contras launched an attack on Sandinista forces in the village of Santa Clara, Nicaragua.
- The Nicaraguan members of the congregation include sisters of both Hispanic heritage and those of Miskito Indian heritage.
- During the mid-1880s at the convent in Greenfield, Michigan both Sister Ludgarde Hoefler and Candidate Margaret Quint jumped from a second story window to escape an intruder. Each suffered injuries from which they never fully recovered.
- For one month in 1861, the membership of the struggling society consisted of one blind sister.
- Because of the emphasis on anonymity of the sisters, Sisters Angeline Kamp and Vera Naber's award-winning book on social studies education was published with the authors listed only as "two Sisters of St. Agnes."
- CSA, a not-for-profit corporation, sponsors other not-for-profit corporations: Agnesian HealthCare, Marian College, the Monroe Clinic (formerly St. Clare Hospital.)
- Two sisters died while on fund-raising expeditions: Enroute with Sister Patrick Walsh to Georgia, Sister Martha Manning succumbed to yellow fever in Savannah on September 26, 1875. On her last collecting trip, to Havana, Cuba, Sister Patrick Walsh contracted small pox and died on April 7,1881. Collections were stopped after Sister Patrick’s death.
- Today, Sisters of St. Agnes teach in every level of education, from kindergarten to university.
- Both the Karlin and the Meis families of Kansas and the Frigo family of Wisconsin had five daughters as members of the congregation.
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