Archives for February 2021

The Sisters of Charity found St. John’s Hotel for Invalids. This became the first Catholic hospital in the city with a teaching college attached to it. This private hospital has since grown and evolved in ministry and is now known as Good Samaritan Hospital.

St. Mary’s School in Dayton opens, the beginning of what is now the University of Dayton

Pope Pius IX issues a bull on July 19, elevating the Diocese of Cincinnati to the rank of an archdiocese.

Two members of the Society of Mary arrive in Cincinnati to assist at the German parishes. Father Leo Meyer is soon sent to Dayton to assist at Emmanuel Church and purchases property for a school.

Ursuline Sisters arrive in Cincinnati from Le Havre, France. They chose to settle in Fayetteville in Brown County, a large Catholic settlement at the time. Led by Sister Julia Chatfield, O.S.U., they opened Ursuline academy and laid the groundwork for what is now Chatfield College.

Led by Father Francis Brunner, fourteen priests and brothers from the Congregation of the Precious Blood arrive in Cincinnati. Shortly after their arrival, Bishop Purcell sends them north to Maria Stein, Ohio. A group of women religious from the Sisters of the Precious Blood soon follow. The congregation grew and has been a mainstay in Auglaize, Mercer and Shelby counties, serving the parishes and schools.