On a night in December, Catherine (Michael Ann) Dominick, BVM boards a bus at Mount Carmel in Dubuque, Iowa, to see Christmas lights in Murphy Park with 12 of her BVM Sisters. She’s been waiting for this day for a…
This article was published in Salt Magazine in 1976, the same year St. Mary's in Chicago closed. In it, author Mary Herlihy, BVM traces the history and impact of Chicago's first Catholic high school for women.
April 2, 1915–June 3, 2018 Ann Ida Gannon, BVM always felt called to serve. “I always knew I wanted to be a sister,” she said. At a young age, she turned down a scholarship at Mundelein College to join the…
Seventy-five years ago, the first and only all women’s Catholic high school in Phoenix opened its doors to its inaugural class of 11 students.