The educational apostolate has been important to our Sisters from the beginning. When our Community began, the Sisters cared for orphans, providing them with a loving home as well as a thorough education.
Today, our Sisters serve as teachers, campus ministers, librarians, tutors, principals, and hold other administrative positions in Catholic elementary schools and high schools, as well as at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, IN.
Sister Josepha came to the United States in 1877. She served as a teacher and later became Provincial Superior. In forming the young Sisters as teachers, she once said:
Once a teacher, always a teacher. Our novices and postulants gain wisdom from our older Sisters who have retired from an active teaching apostolate.
