Ida Elizabeth Sawyer
In 1865, Father Bernard Donnelly, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church at 11th and Broadway, wrote to the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, near St. Louis, requesting the Superior send some sisters to open a convent school for girls. Father Donnelly promised the Sisters that a school built in 1859 from bricks […]
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