Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica
benedictine monastery in Kansas
The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica are an education-focused Benedictine religious community in Atchison, Kansas. The monastery founded Mount St.Scholastica College, a women's college which merged with St. Benedict's College in 1971, forming what is now Benedictine College.
History
On November 11, 1863, Mother Evangelista Kremmeter and six other Benedictine sisters from the Sisters of St. Joseph in St. Cloud, Minnesota, arrived in Atchison by ferry at the request of Father Augustine Wirth. They took up lodging beside Atchison's Benedictine monks, who had established a monastery in the town in 1856 and had built a small convent for the sisters. In April 1864, two more sisters joined the group, arriving after being delayed in Hannibal, Missouri by Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession.
In 1877, the sisters, then numbered 28, moved to their current site after purchasing Price Villa at public auction, which they renamed St.
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