Sisters celebrate 25 years in Huancane, Peru!

Sisters in front of the convent in Huancane, Peru!

In 1985, Sisters Rita Prendergast, Rosa Margarita Valdes and Rosalina Acosta went to work with the Aymara and Quechua people of Huancane in the Department of Puno.

Sr. Rosa Margarita with Peruvian women.

As in their other missions, the sisters lived the life of the poor people of the area and taught religion, trained catechists, organized youth groups, developed a parish council, and visited the sick in the hospital and the prisoners in jail.

Sr. Rita in jail ministry.

Sr. Carol Ann feeding a sheep in front of the convent

CCVI on Twitter

Hello all
It's been a while since I've posted but we're back!

The archives and museum are now tweeting!
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Holidays from our History

Tis the season everyone! For the next few weeks I will add a little story from our monthly letters of years gone by concerning...you guessed it - Christmas!

Check back often to see how the early members of our Congregation celebrated.

Concerning Christmas 1883 - Chicago Illinois

All the day our little crib had some visitor; our little postulants were often found near this sacred spot and we must believe that many graces were asked and recieved on that festival. The Innocent day was as memorable as ever. In the evening we were treated at the Asylum by the performance of the Pastores or Shepherds. We enjoyed it very much, though most of our Sisters could but see the motions, as the whole of it was spoken in Spanish.

On Christmas day [in San Antonio] our dear Sister St. Andrew made her profession, and Miss Ellen took the habit. You shall know her now by the name of Sister M. Josephine of the Infant Jesus.

Founders Day 2008

Okay - so I know I promised some Headwaters blogging - but this event was so terrific I am jumping in with it!

Founders Day is an event that focuses on the founding of the City of San Antonio. It is always a lot of fun! I like to think of it as a Folklife Festival but with a history lesson.
This year the Archives joined for the first time ever!






We shared a table with Mat Martin from the Oblate's Archives and it was terrific. The turn out was great. We had many people stop by our table to learn about Santa Rosa and the founding of our Congregation.




Here I am 'posing' with the materials we brought - next year we will have our own table and I will bring many more artifacts!

The day was a little warm but with the tent we borrowed from Angel 'the assistant archivist' Lane's mother, it was perfect.


The morning's musical event by the University of the Incarnate Word's choir inside San Fernando Cathedral was very moving.

The crowd was very large and kept us very busy!


There will be a full article on the event with more pictures in the November issue of the CCVI Congregational newsletter.




Thanks to Angel and her mom for lending us the tent.

A special thanks to all the sisters who made it downtown for the event.

Sr. Consuelo and Sr. Norma Rosa
stopped by our table to say hi.

The beginning

Hello all

First time out!

We are the archives for the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas!

http://www.amormeus.org/

The congregation is filled with amazing women taking part in amazing projects around the world.

Their ministries include: Social Justice, Health care, Education, Environment and Women's Issues in such places as The United States, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Ireland and Africa.

We are starting this blog so that we can share archives projects with the public and members of the congregation around the world.

Next up: Headwaters collection

The Headwaters of the San Antonio River lie next to the University of the Incarnate Word. The congregation deeded these 53 acres to the Headwaters Coalition to be preserved as a public nature sanctuary, called the Headwaters Sanctuary. The archives has received cultural artifacts found in the sanctuary from numerous archaeological collections and as we catalogue it we will paint a picture of the history of these lands.