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Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt. The Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt are a religious congregation within the Dominican Order of religious sisters founded in 1890. They are based in the town of Blauvelt, New York, a northern suburb of New York City. Their traditional service has been childcare, both through teaching and caring for orphans.
Dominican University New York was founded as Dominican College of Blauvelt in 1952 by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt [3] to offer a teacher preparation program for religious women. Five years later, the college was opened to lay students.
Mary Eileen O'Brien is an American academic administrator and member of the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt. She has worked as the president of the Dominican University New York since 1997. Life. O'Brienn was raised in the Bronx. O'Brien earned a B.A. in English from Dominican College in 1965.
Mother Cabrini High School – All-girls' school opened in 1899 by Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini; staffed by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; closed in June 2014. Monsignor Kelly Jr. High School – All-boys' school for gifted and the highest-I.Q. New York County students; closed in 1972.
Finally, in response to changing trends in the education of women, the Blauvelt Dominican Sisters expanded the mission of the school and in 1962 St. Pius was fully accredited as an academic high school by the New York State Board of Regents under the name St. Pius V High School.
The Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) was first established in the United States by Edward Fenwick in the early 19th century. The first Dominican institution in the United States was the Province of Saint Joseph, which was established in 1805. [1] Additionally, there have been numerous institutes of Dominican Sisters and Nuns.
Cecilia Cesarini (1203-1290), also Caecilia, [2] was a Dominican nun. Cecilia, described as "a high-spirited young Roman", [2] was born into the Cesarini family, a well-established family of the minor nobility. [3] The reason she entered into a religious life is unknown.
The church of St. Margaret of Antioch was built in 1900 and replaced in 1931 after a 1929 fire. Saint Margaret School was organized in 1953 by Pastor Michael Toner and the Dominican sisters of Blauvelt, with classes for grades 1 through 4 being offered that year in temporary quarters and a new building with 8 classrooms and a gymnasium being dedicated by Cardinal Spellman the following year.