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Statue of Madonna and Child Jesus
This statue of the Madonna and Child Jesus was given to Sister Mary Xavier Mehegan, a Sister of Charity of New York, circa 1859. The statue was given to her by the Sisters of Charity of New York when Sister Mary Xavier agreed to help found the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth in New Jersey. Now Mother Mary Xavier, she kept the statue in the first Motherhouse in Newark, New Jersey and carried it in her arms on the carriage ride to rural Morris County on July 2, 1860 when the Motherhouse was relocated to Madison, New Jersey. It is on display in the Heritage Room of the Motherhouse. -
Embroidery on silk of pandas
In October 1996 Sister Mary Carita Pendergast, a Sister of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, received this piece of embroidery, framed in glass, from Agnes Chao, a Chinese woman living in Shanghai at the time. Sister Carita had been a missioner in Hunan Province, China from 1933 to 1951. The Sisters of Charity raised the orphaned Agnes from infancy and educated her to the level of a normal school (teacher education) graduate. Agnes then taught in the Sisters’ school in Wuki.
When the Communist government interrogated Sister Carita prior to her expulsion from China in 1951, they turned to Agnes and demanded that she testify to the Sisters’ crimes, which she refused to do even with a gun pointed at her. In 1996 Agnes Chao was a grandmother, working in a factory; the cost of shipping the package to Sister Carita – a token of Agnes’s gratitude and concern – might have been two months’ salary.
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Sister Mary Ellen Verdon, S.C. Oral History
Description of Sister's preparation to become a nurse/missioner in Bolivia -
Sister Teresa Miriam Beschel, S.C. Oral History
Description of Sister's years as a missioner in China; her expulsion by the communist government of China; her return trip to China -
Sister Margaret Ann Fitzsimmons, S.C. Oral History
Description of Sister's years as teacher and superior at the Colegio de San Antonio in Guayama, Puerto Rico -
Sister Marie Devota Gately, S.C. Oral History
Description of Sister's varied volunteer activities during her retirement in Caritas Community in Jersey City, NJ -
Sister Anna Denise Murphy, S.C. Oral History
Description of Sister's early years at the House of Divine Providence; stories of Mother M. Xavier -
Sister Agnes Socorro Ward, S.C. Oral History
Description of Sister's early years in Harrison and at Convent Station; stories of Mother M. Xavier -
Sister Mary Josepha Murphy, S.C. Oral History
Description of Sister's interactions with Archbishop Robert Seton during her novitiate year -
Sister Louis Marie Bryan, S.C. Oral History
Description of her education, her career in social work, her experiences as a Black sister