| First vows on July 23, 1890 |
Anna Schilly (Sister M. Laurentiana, S.C.C.)
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The eighth child of Lorenz Schilly and Victoria Birkenmeier born 29 May 1871 in Carondelet, Missouri
| Sister M. Laurentiana Schilly, SCC, was a member of the Sisters of Christian Charity, founded by Blessed Pauline von Mallinckrodt who stated (circa 1849) "My only desire is that God's will be fulfilled in me." Pauline von Mallinckrodt lived in Germany during the 19th century. Witnessing the injustices and poverty brought about by the Industrial Revolution, this wealthy young woman set about serving Christ in the poor. She established day care centers for the neglected children, schools for the blind, and hospice care for the elderly and sick. In 1849 she founded a religious congregation, the Sisters of Christian Charity, Daughters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception, to continue this service in the name of the Church. |
Blessed Pauline von Mallinkrodt, founder of the Sisters of Christian Charity in Paderborn, Germany, 1849. Sr. Xaveria Kaschke (1833-1913: Intrepid
Pioneer) was an early follower.
Pioneer) was an early follower.
| ROME Suore della Carita Cristiana Casa Generalizia-Villa Paolina Largo XXI Aprile, 10 00162 Roma, ITALIA GERMANY Mutterhaus der Schwestern der Christlichen Liebe Warburger Str. 2 33098 Paderborn Germany NORTH AMERICAN EASTERN PROVINCE Mallinckrodt Convent 350 Bernardsville Road Mendham, NJ 07945-0800 U.S.A. NORTH AMERICAN WESTERN PROVINCE Maria Immaculata Convent 2041 Elmwood Avenue Wilmette, IL 60091-1431 U.S.A. CHILE Casa Madre O' Higgins 676, Casilla 290 San Bernardo, Chile AMERICA DEL SUR ARGENTINA / URUGUAY Casa Maria Inmaculada Camino Castro 667 12900 Montevideo, Uruguay AMERICA DEL SUR PHILIPPINES 18 Calderon St., Project 4 P.O. Box AC 517 Cubao, Quezon City 1135 Philippines |
| On August 21, 1849. Pauline and three other women joined together as the first Sisters of Christian Charity. After their novitiate they pronounced their Holy Vows on November 4, 1850 in the Busdorf Church in Paderborn. Within the next twenty years their field of activities flourished in various towns of Germany. By 1871 the congregation numbered 244 Sisters and labored in more than 19 missions. During Otto von Bismarck’s rise to power the Kulturkampf began to rage throughout Germany, causing many crushing events for the young community. Religious property was seized and one school after the other was closed by the government. The work started by Pauline and her Sisters was being obliterated. The motherhouse was moved to Belgium. Pauline’s words to her Sisters at this time were, “The Lord gives and takes away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” At the same time requests from North and South America for Sisters to teach the German immigrant children came pouring in. Pauline responded by sending a small group of Sisters to New Orleans, LA in 1873. Within a few months Pauline sent more Sisters to the United States, and she herself made two extensive trips to the New World so as to witness first hand the needs of the people in both North and South America. Within a short time after a provincial motherhouse and novitiate were established in Wilkes Barre, PA, the German community of the Sisters of Christian Charity was thriving in the United States. By the end of the 1870s the religious persecution in Germany had ended and the exiled Sisters in Belgium were able to return to their homeland and continue their work. The community had grown in number and in missions during the time of oppression. In Europe there were 9 establishments, in the United States 27, and in Chile 8. Mother Pauline returned to Paderborn after her trip to North and South America in 1880. Within a few short months, to the great sorrow of the Sisters, Pauline became ill with pneumonia and died on April 30, 1881. Mother Pauline’s legacy of love continued on after her death. Here in the United States in 1915 the thriving community moved its motherhouse from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, to Wilmette, Illinois, and in 1927 established a second province, with a motherhouse and novitiate in Mendham, N.J.. This new Eastern province had as its primary work that of Catholic education. During the 1950s and 1960s the Sisters added to the field of labor the care of the sick by establishing two hospitals in Pennsylvania. |
Mallinckrodt College
A unique religious complex, Mallinckrodt College (1916) is of particular
architectural interest. Also designed by Hermann J. Gaul for the Sister of
Christian Charity, it took several years to complete. Its round-arch
window and door openings, ornamental wall treatments, verticality and
central tower are derived from Italian Romanesque church architecture.
Loyola University of Chicago has signed a contract with a developer to
sell the Mallinckrodt Campus in Wilmette, Ill., a northern suburb of
Chicago on the Lake Michigan shore. The campus was designed by
Hermann Gaul and built in 1913-16 for the Sisters of Christian Charity,
originally of Germany, as their motherhouse and chapel. It has housed
many educational institutions over the years, including Mallinckrodt
College, and most recently Loyola's College of Education.
A unique religious complex, Mallinckrodt College (1916) is of particular
architectural interest. Also designed by Hermann J. Gaul for the Sister of
Christian Charity, it took several years to complete. Its round-arch
window and door openings, ornamental wall treatments, verticality and
central tower are derived from Italian Romanesque church architecture.
Loyola University of Chicago has signed a contract with a developer to
sell the Mallinckrodt Campus in Wilmette, Ill., a northern suburb of
Chicago on the Lake Michigan shore. The campus was designed by
Hermann Gaul and built in 1913-16 for the Sisters of Christian Charity,
originally of Germany, as their motherhouse and chapel. It has housed
many educational institutions over the years, including Mallinckrodt
College, and most recently Loyola's College of Education.
Motherhouse in Paderborn, Germany
| Maria Immaculata Covent in Wilmette, Illinois where Sr. M. Laurentiana Schilly, SCC died on June 29, 1957 |
Sister M. Laurentiana, SCC, nee Anna Marie Schilly
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| Holy Family Convent and Infirmary was originally established in 1899 as a home where the elderly and infirm Sisters could spend their retirement years in prayer and tranquility while being surrounded by their loving Sisters. - Danville, PA. |
| Josephinum Academy in Chicago Founded in 1890 by the Sisters of Christian Charity, Josephinum is now administered by the Religious of the Sacred Heart and governed by an independent board of directors. |
- In 1905 she was sent to Brooklyn, N.Y., as a help in the upper grades
(St. Benedict (German) [1853; Closed 1973] - Fulton & Ralph {25th
ward})
different historic communities: Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York City's largest African-American neighborhood, is
the result of a merging to two distinct communities. In the 1600s, the Dutch
West India Company bought a large parcel of farmland from the Canarsie
Indians and named it Bedford - either for the Duke of Bedford or for England's
Bedfordshire. The mostly rural Bedford included the free black community of
Weeksville. To the east, Stuyvesant Heights was established during the 1890s
and named for Peter Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland during the
1600s. The two communities existed separately until the 1930s. Bed Stuy had
Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Greeks and lots of Irish cops.
Bedford was a rural community well into the 1800s. When Brooklyn was
incorporated in 1834, Bedford became part of a large tract of under-populated,
rural land where on 666 people lived in 1835. Some 20 years later, the
population had ballooned to 9,000, with Blacks comprising about one third of
the population. The sparsely populated area became home to several
charitable institutions, including the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, the Brooklyn
Home for Aged Men, the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives and St. Mary's
Hospital. As the 1870s wound to a close, the Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights
sections merged and became "solidly middle-class, even upper-class
residential areas inhabited by 'people of moderate fortune, intelligent,
temperate, thrifty.'" It would be another 60 years before the first reference to
"Bedford-Stuyvesant" appeared in a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on February 21,
1931.
Throughout the 1900s, Bedford-Stuyvesant continued its growth - both
geographically and demographically. The construction of an elevated train 40
years earlier supported the types of changes in the community that resulted in
an increase in the Black population and a migration by that population into other
areas of Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the last decades of the 19th century, with the
advent of electric trolleys and the Fulton Street Elevated, Bedford Stuyvesant
became a working class and middle class bedroom community for those
working in downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City. At that time,
most of the pre-existing wooden homes were destroyed and replaced with
brownstone row houses, which are highly sought after in the neighborhood's
contemporary renaissance. Many consider the area to be the African-American
mecca of Brooklyn, similar to what Harlem is to Manhattan.
2007, now a Rite Aid
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