Visitation Sisters celebrate 400 years

Submitted on July 29, 2010

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By Barbara Watkins | bwatkins@archstl.org

Sisters of the Visitation prayed at the Monastery Chapel on Ballas Road in Town and Country. From left in the front row are Sisters Lucy Beres, Barbara Greenwell and Veronica Haronik. Behind them sat Sisters Aloysia Heurich and Mary Aimee Dilschneider.

REBECCA VENEGONI TOWER

As the Sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary celebrate their 400th anniversary worldwide this year, the Visitation Sisters in St. Louis are living their charism of humility, gentleness, simplicity and a strong interior life, and striving to share it with others.

"Now our great mission is to pass our charism on," said Sister Marie Therese Ruthmann, a former Visitation Academy teacher and former superior at the monastery.

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