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FOUNDING AND GROWTH The order was founded in Bavaria in 1833 during a time of poverty and illiteracy. Its founder, Caroline Gerhardinger , known by the religious name of Mary Theresa of Jesus, formed a community with two other women in Neunburg Vorm Wald, Bavaria to teach the poor. In 1847 Mother Theresa and five companion sisters went to America to aid a group of German immigrants in rural Pennsylvania , eventually travelling as far west as the Mississippi River and establishing several missions for their order. More than 4,300 School Sisters of Notre Dame work in thirty-five countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania. GOVERNANCE The Constitution of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, approved by Pope Pius IX in 1865 , allowed Mother Theresa and her successors, instead of local bishops, to govern the order. Today, the order has motherhouses in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Baltimore, Maryland ; St. Louis, Missouri ; Mankato, Minnesota ; Waterdown, Ontario ; Wilton, Connecticut ; Dallas, Texas ; and Chicago, Illinois . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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