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A Jule bus with a strong new message is traversing Dubuque, Iowa, streets that includes the national hotline number: 888-373-7888. Women religious in the Dubuque area are the prime sponsors of a bus wrap featuring a photo of a young girl…
Welcome and congratulations to seven new associates for asking for and receiving the gift of association! Four new associates from California celebrated their commitment ceremony on July 10. Dolores R. Bromberek Dolores R. Bromberek, and her husband, John, live in…
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary chose leadership for the next four years at a virtual Congregational Assembly June 22–27. LaDonna Manternach, BVM will be president of the congregation. Second vice president since 2016, she is a graduate…
Mary Ellen Meckley, BVM (near the center wearing a green hat) rallies with the Jane Addams Senior Caucus Care Collective Team at a #RaiseUpIL action. BVM Mary Ellen (Davidette) Meckley so strongly believes that “people need homecare” that she stands…
BVM Carola Broderick (l.) arm wrestles with her nephew Paul Duwelius, while his sister Michele plays cards with BVM Mary Ann (Florence) Palumbo during a visit to Des Moines. by Mary Glindinning A multigenerational devotion to the Sisters of Charity…
Parishioners at St. James Parish on Wabash in Chicago replaced folding chairs with ones from the Marian Hall Chapel donated by BVMs. “Have a seat” is a hospitable welcome. Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary were able to…
Kitty Lawlor, BVM autographs one of the books she wrote about BVM Foundress Mary Frances Clarke's letters. by Mary Glindinning The history of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the people and places they served intertwine…
Marie Greaney, BVM has given blood since she was in the novitiate at Mount Carmel in Dubuque, Iowa. Featured in the Winter 2020 issue of Salt by Margaret “Peggy” Geraghty, BVM Marie (David Therese) Greaney, BVM celebrated her 87th birthday…
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary will join others in wearing orange Saturday, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, in memory of those killed in shootings. In the United States in 2020, guns killed 44,000 people; nearly 20,000 were…
From the August 2017 BVM Center News By Jennifer Head, Archivist The Mount Carmel Archives recently acquired a treasure from Our Lady of Angels Academy in Clinton, Iowa, founded by the BVMs in 1872. It is a book containing pressed…