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16 Jul

The Sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary took possession of DeSales Heights in Parkersburg

On July 25, 1864, a colony of eight Catholic nuns set out for Parkersburg from Washington, D.C., and Frederick, Maryland. Led by Mother Superior Mary Appolonia Diggs, the Sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary, a teaching order, did not arrive at ...

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