"In 1861, Reverend Mother Saint John Facemaz, Superior General of the Congregation, during a visit to the Holy City, obtained... the body of the child-martyr, St. Aurelia... The principal well-preserved bones are encased in a waxen figure clothed in Roman tunic and mantle, and the smaller ones are sealed in a metallic case, near which is placed the Vas Sanguinis, the vial of blood found in the
"In 1861, Reverend Mother Saint John Facemaz, Superior General of the Congregation, during a visit to the Holy City, obtained... the body of the child-martyr, St. Aurelia... The principal well-preserved bones are encased in a waxen figure clothed in Roman tunic and mantle, and the smaller ones are sealed in a metallic case, near which is placed the Vas Sanguinis, the vial of blood found in the
"Photograph of an oil painting of the two-room log cabin, which was the first American Mother House of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Attic sleeping quarters were reached by an outside ladder, as shown. The cabin convent was on the site of the present Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the order in America will be observed in mid-April."
"Outside view of the Holy Family Chapel at the Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the majority of the solemn religious exercises will be held in connection with the observance, in mid-April, of the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment, in America, of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet."
"Testimonial dinner proceeds are presented by joseph P. Holloran, co-chairman of the committee which arranged the affair, to Mother Aurelia Mary of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Looking on at the ceremony in the clock tower courtyard of their convent at 6400 Minnesota Ave. are Donald Gunn, co-chairman of the dinner committee with Mr. Holloran, and Sister Francesca Marie, bursar general of the order. Proceeds from the $50-a-plate dinner in the Khorassan Room of the Chase Hotel Feb. 23, totaled $45,797."
"Cross at the Convent of Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, at Holly Hills and Minnesota on the South Side, blown loose by winds early Wednesday morning."
"Eastern view of the present Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment, in America, of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, will be celebrated in mid-April."
"St. Joseph's beautiful chapel, the newest building in the group. Far in the background at the right is seen the tower of the oldest building. These rise above a retaining wall 35 feet high, necessitated many years ago by a Herculean "out" made by the Iron Mountain Railroad, in order to obtain earth for a "fill" farther along its line. The Sisters of St. Joseph now own this "flat", which extends to Broadway."
"Log Cottage at Carondelet, the first Mother-House of the Sisters of St. Joseph in America. This was Convent, school, and Boarding Home for pupils. The outside ladder was the only way of reaching the upper story. The buildings of today constitute the governing for 3,000 Sisters of the order, are on the same Carondelet site. The picture is photographed from a painting of the old house, made by one of the Sisters."
her work has largely in institutions for children before her retirement last year to Nazareth Convent in Lemay. The picture will have its world premiere in St. Louis May 11."
"Twenty-five young women were received as Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet yesterday at their Mother house, 6400 Minnesota Ave. They dressed in white for the ceremonies at which they received the black garb of Sisters. Thirty-one novices professed their vows as part of the rituals at which Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter officiated."
"Foremost among these are the entire bodies of nine martyrs, six of which occupy prominent places in the chapel at the Mother House... The body of Saint Nerusia Euticia, a young Roman noblewoman of the second century, was taken from the Cemetery of Saint Calipodius July 16, 1801. It reposes in a sarcophagus of rich wood and plate glass. The skeleton is held together with gauze, through which the
"Five Georgia girls, scheduled to enter the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, 6400 Minnesota Ave., arrived by plane from Atlanta, Ga., yesterday at Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport. They were greeted by Sisters Margaret John (left) and Susanne Marie of Fontbonne College. Shown from the left, on the plane steps, are: Rosaline Salome, Jeanne Stulb, Jeannette Harrington, Margarete Ann Cambell and Jeanne McGovern."
"Foremost among these are the entire bodies of nine martyrs, six of which occupy prominent places in the chapel at the Mother House... The body of St. Discolius, a boy of twelve years, was removed from the cemetery of St. Agnes in 1802. The stone slab accompanying it bears a hand, a bird, and the inscription 'Discolius in Pace,' all rudely carved."
