It was temporarily removed from during the construction phase of the Learning Commons (2014-2015). The statue became a part of Marywood's campus after the move. A resident chaplain was secured, and seventy Sisters were enjoying the peaceful and prayerful life of the Marian Convent. One week later, the ill and aged Sisters were transferred from Saint Agnes' Villa, Elmhurst, Pennsylvania, and from the cloister ward of St. It was called Marian Convent, for it was begun in a Marian Year (page 163 of Sisters, Servants, Immaculate Heart of Mary, 1845-1967).ĪpThe Marian Convent was completed and dedicated by the Most Reverend Bishop Hannan. Ground was broken at Marywood on October 7, 1954, for a three-story brick building with a chapel wing. St Agnes Place, Elmhurst, opened in 1925, in a beautiful site twelve miles from Marywood, was no longer adequate for the growing numbers of Sisters who needed care. In their new surroundings, the Sisters felt only one lack in their new home - the absence of the Blessed Sacrament (page 63 of Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scranton, Pennsylvania: 1919-1974).įor several years, the community had pondered the need for a better home for our aged and ill Sisters. There were bountiful supplies of vegetables, a dairy provided milk and butter, and with the chickens a plentiful supply of fresh eggs. The work was completed by July 1925, but the house was not opened until early August of that year.Saint Agnes Place was a quiet, peaceful setting on a very productive piece of farmland. Sister Monica Quinn and Sister John Baptist Hale were sent to prepare the house for occupancy. As a home for our aged and ill Sisters, it was named St.
Agnes Allen Glennon, an alumna of St John's Pittston, Pennsylvania, and a close friend of the Sisters, who donated her estate, a beautiful country residence located in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania, for this purpose. The need for a home for these Sisters became known to Mrs. Mother Casimir's concern for the sisters was also reflected in her love and care of the ill and aging Sisters. Regis was appointed the first superior there (page 159 of Sisters, Servants, Immaculate Heart of Mary, 1845 -1967). The new home was named Saint Agnes Place and Sister M. Connell on the Elmhurst Boulevard, Elmhurst, PA, with twenty-five acres of land, barns, caretaker's house, and garage and gave it to Mother Casimir to be used as a convent for infirm Sisters. Glennon purchased the beautiful home of W. Casimir, beloved Mother Superior at the time of her death on February 16, 1929, had realized her desire to provide a home for aged and infirm Sisters through the generosity of Mrs. It had also been used as the "Throne of our Eucharistic Lord" during the solemn Corpus Christi processions. The Sisters of the IHM (on page 280) reveals that, each year on the last Sunday of May, the students, novices, and Sisters proceeded to the Shrine with the coronation of Mary. The statue in its pavilion still stands today on the campus, midway between the Liberal Arts Building and Nazareth Hall, on the very spot where surveyors from the Railroad had been seen making their preliminary calculations." (page 10 of A Retrospective) The Reverend Daniel Dunn and his brother, Reverend John Dunn, donated funds for a shrine to Our Lady of Victory.
"So close was the brush with disaster and so great the relief at escaping it that two supporters of the IHM Sisters decided to commemorate the triumph in a physical form. Mother Cyril single-handedly convinced the authorities to select an alternative route for their proposed extension. Mother Cyril, Mother Superior at the time, requested a meeting with Railroad officials to represent and defend the interest of her Congregation.
If the Railroad were granted the right of eminent domain to build, plans for the school would cease. The Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad had announced a plan to extend its line from Scranton to Carbondale that cut directly across the Green Ridge property of Marywood.
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