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Centenary of Corpus Christi Monastery, Menlo Park, California

Dominican Nuns O.P. May 24, 2021

“On the 29th of May 1921, it being the Sunday within the octave of the feast of Corpus Christi, five choir sisters – Mother Mary of the Rosary, Very Reverend Mother Prioress, Mother Mary Emmanuel, Reverend Mother Subprioress, Mother Mary of the Immaculate Heart, Sister Mary Agnes, and Sister Mary of the Visitation – two lay sisters – Sister Mary Rose and Sister Mary Thomas – and Sister Mary Benedict, touriere and natural sister of Sister Mary Rose, set out to found in San Francisco a new monastery with perpetual exposition and adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament…”

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