This is a Brand New exact Reprint of the 1930 Revised Edition of
Elinor Tong Dehey's Religious Orders of Women in the United States.
940 Pages. Hardcover, *Religious Orders of Women in the United
States* was written by Elinor Tong Dehey in 1930. In 1913, the same
author had published an earlier edition of this directory and this
is its revision. Dehey's work was the first attempt EVER made to
collect a listing of every religious order of women in the United
States describing their origins, their foundresses, their works,
activities, charism, way of life clothing (habit) and institutions.
Rev. Thomas McCarthy later published his famous *Guides to Catholic
Sisterhoods*, but Elinor Dehey's book was the first and is much
more extensive in its research and presentation. Unlike the
McCarthy Guides which confine each order to one page, some of
Dehey's entries need many pages (orders like the Ursulines have 40
pages, the Sisters of Mercy have 88 pages and the various Charity
orders have 30 pages). Other smaller, lesser known communities can
be described in a single page or two (like the Sisters of Our Lady
of Charity of the Refuge or the Sisters of the Infant Jesus). The
entries are presented in chronological order starting with the
earliest community in America (the Ursulines in 1727) to the most
recent (1930 Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa). This 940
page hardbound book is filled with over 400 illustrations of
sisters, foundresses, Motherhouses, novitiates and institutions
(schools, colleges, hospitals). Along with historical sketches of
the origins of each order and its founders, the story of the
development of each individual mission in the U. S. is related
including naming the pioneer sisters who sacrificed so much to
spread God's Word and to fulfill their vows. These sketches always
conclude with a Summary chart which lists the official name of the
order, the place and date of its original foundation, a description
of the habit worn by the sisters, the approximate membership
numbers and a listing of their institutions. The Directory ends
with a 50 page supplement giving the addresses of the Motherhouse,
Novitiate, College, Hospital and Boarding Home in the United States
conducted by religious orders of women (in 1930, of course). The
book concludes with a 5 page Glossary of words such as: prioress,
grille, cornette, oblate, bandeau, wimple, coif, guimpe, etc.)
*Religious Orders of Women in the United States* by Elinor Tong
Dehey is the definitive Directory of all of the Catholic
Sisterhoods existing at that time and is an extremely difficult
book to locate.Many Photos.
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