The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a Catholic religious institute of sisters, founded in 1845 by Fr. Louis Florent Gillet, CSsR, and Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin, a co-founder o
The now vacant St. Mary Academy seen from West Elm Avenue in Monroe
The Mother House on the IHM campus as seen up close
Photograph of the late stages of the fire
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Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
…a co-founder of the Oblate Sister of Providence. Via their first Superior, Mother Duchemin, they were the first predominantly White order founded by a Black Catholic (though the order hid this fact for 160 years). Founded (and still headquartered) in Monroe, Michigan, the sisters originally began as teachers. They…
Portrait of the attendees at the 1892 Colored Catholic Congress. Front and center is Fr Augustus Tolton, the nation's first openly-Black Catholic priest.
St. Anthony's Mission House, a racially integrated minor seminary founded by Fr Ignatius Lissner of the Society of African Missions in 1921. Originally located in Highwood, Bergen County, New Jersey.