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Beginnings of English Province

1908 – Shortly before Christmas, Srs Salesia and Dominica came to England. They stayed at the Benedictine Sisters in Princethorpe. Their task was to get the English language to be able to go to America to establish the Congregation there.

1909 – The idea with America failed. Both sisters were asked to set up a facility of the Congregation in England. The day of launch of a branch in Rochdale, near Manchester, falls on April 25. At 90 000 inhabitants of the city, there were only 10% of Catholics. For them sisters started a little private school, and later a kindergarten.

1914 – World War I broke contact with the mother country. Stay and work of the sisters were only possible depending on the superior of British nationality. For a transitional period this function took over a sister from the Congregation of St. Vincent a Paulo from Tottington. Later, a lady who provided the lessons in the parish school in Rochdale, took over this task.

 

1919 – Since kindergarten in Rochdale required magnification, it was moved to Mount Pleasant, Facit.

1931 – Up to the outbreak of World War II arrived to Rochdale candidates of the Missionary School of Limburg, to complete their studies by taking an examination in Oxford.

1937 – Sisters started running a school in Castleford. In the absence of sisters, it had to be left.

1939 – World War II contributed again to a certain isolation of the English region from the rest of the Congregation but had no effect on the interruption of the works carried out.

1947 – Novitiate was established in Rochdale. Over time, its character became more and more international, because the candidate who came here were from England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

1950 – Pallotti Hall – An orphanage was transferred there from Facit.

1954 – London – At the parish of St. Peter and Paul, led by Irish Pallottine Fathers, Sisters undertook parish work and work in school. To the community of sisters in London belonged the sisters who studied at the University of London and other universities. The house became a temporary haven for all visitors from other continents.

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St. Peter and Paul Church in London

1956 – Enlargement of a school in Rochdale, which included the Beechwood, Westfield and Highfield. It was awarded the degree of state “Grammar School”.

1964 – Sisters from English region went to Ireland, to take over keeping the house at the Pallottine Fathers’ seminar in Thurles, Tipperary.

1966 – Rochdale – The Sisters built a new house. Thus ended a period of difficult housing conditions. The house has to serve the community as the seat of English region, as well as the novitiate house.

1968 – English region was raised to the rank of a province. Provincial headquarters was moved to London.

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Sr. Christine Bohr, a Provincial Superior for many years.

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Sr. Stella and Sr. Anna Maria (103 years of age!)

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Sr. Petrona

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Source: Outline of History of Pallottine Missionary Sisters, by Sr. Dominika Rose, SAC, manuscript, Generalate in Rome 1970/1971

Photo by Sr. Izabela Swierad, SAC

 

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