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    Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph publish history of their community

    After five years in the making, “Hope and Firm Faith: The Story of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph,” is available for purchase.

    This book brings to life the amazing women who have served God’s people since arriving at Maple Mount, Ky., in 1874. Readers will learn how the Ursuline Sisters operated Mount Saint Joseph Academy for more than 100 years, and also opened Brescia College – now University – in Owensboro, Ky. The Ursuline Sisters opened countless elementary and high schools in Kentucky, Nebraska, Missouri and other states, as far away as New Mexico.

    This 650-page book chronicles how the Ursuline Sisters evolved with the world around them and within the Catholic Church. Their story is told through the words of the Sisters who lived during each decade, thanks to the research in the extensive archival records at Maple Mount and elsewhere.

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    Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph

    The history of the Ursuline Sisters at Mount Saint Joseph begins in August 1874. A strenuous journey by flatboat down the Ohio River from Louisville and by spring wagon from Owensboro brought five pioneer Ursulines to the town of St. Joseph to establish a ministry that has endured and grown through more than 130 years. The sisters came at the urgent request of Father Paul Joseph Volk, pastor of the neighboring Saint Alphonsus Church. A native of Germany, Father Volk had shared his desire to build a school with the bishop of Louisville as well as with the Ursuline community there - a German foundation that was just 16 years old. All of the sisters who came were German-born.

    The Aquila Blandford family, who lived on a nearby farm, welcomed the sisters with a meal of watermelon and buttermilk. Construction of the school, including the sisters' living quarters, was underway, but far from complete. For months, the sisters had to "make do" with impr
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    Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint namn (USA)
    8001 Cummings Road
    Maple Mount, KY 42356-9999
    Tel: 270-229-4103 – Fax: 270-229-4127
    dan.heckel@maplemount.org
    www.ursulinesmsj.org
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    The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint namn in Maple Mount, Kentucky, proclaim Jesus through ministries of education and Christian formation in the states of Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, New York and Tennessee, as well as in Washington, D.C. The sisters maintain one utländsk mission, Casa Ursulina in Chillan, Chile. The sisters, numbering more than 130, support their apostolic life by bön and contemplation.
    The Ursuline Associates unite the laity with the mission of the Sisters. Associates share prayer, celebration and hospitality with the Ursuline community, while living their own vocations and spreading the spirit of Saint Angela in their workplace and envir