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"Mary Alfred Moes Mother Mary Alfred Moes, O.S.F., (October 28, 1828 — December 18, 1899)Mother Alfred Moes, Joliet Franciscan Sisters was instrumental in establishing first, the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate in Joliet, Illinois, as well as the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota. She was also the founder of St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota, which became part of the famed Mayo Clinic. Early life Born as Maria Catherine Moes in Remich, Luxembourg, she was the daughter of a prosperous ironsmith. She emigrated to America with her sister, Catherine, due to the preaching of Bishop John Henni of Milwaukee. Bishop Henni spoke of the need for teachers in the United States, especially among the Native Americans."Our Founder", Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate There were also large immigrant communities, mostly German-speaking, establishing themselves there. Both were highly educated in music and arts. Besides their own Luxembourg language, they spoke and studied in French, German and English. They had also studied mathematics and architecture. The Moes sisters left a life of comfort and set sail from Le Havre, France on September 27, 1851, destined for New York City. From 1852-1863 they lived first in Wisconsin, with the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee, then with the Marianites of Holy Cross in South Bend, Indiana. While there, the sisters took religious vows and assumed the names of Sister Alfred and Sister Barbara. When the option arose of leaving the Holy Cross Sisters, the Moes sisters, with two companions, were received into the Third Order of St. Francis, on June 1, 1863. Illinois At the invitation of the parish priest in Joliet, Illinois, the small group of four Sisters moved to that town the following November to begin teaching the local children. Lightning struck the Church of St. John the Baptist there on July 31, 1864, killing one parishioner, a young woman who left behind a family. The distraught widower asked the Sisters to care for his children. This unexpected work soon expanded, and the Sisters began to take in orphans, as well as boarding school students, and candidates to the community. The Sisters soon bought a larger house and established St. Francis Academy. During the summer of 1865, the Guardian of the Franciscan friars in the United States, Father Pamfilo da Magliano, O.S.F., summoned Sister Alfred to St. Bonaventure Friary, in Allegany County, New York, along with the first postulant to the community, Mary Ann Rosenberger. There he named Sister Alfred as the Superior General of the new congregation of the "Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate". At that time he bestowed the Franciscan habit on Rothenberger, who took the name Sister Angela. Until 1880, the order used the Constitution drafted for the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, a congregation da Magliano had previously established. By 1869, the Sisters had built a new St. Francis Academy, teaching girls aged 3–20 and drawing students from across the nation. Pastors around the whole country sought the Sisters to come to their parishes to teach their children, especially in non-English-speaking populations. By 1874, the Sisters were teaching throughout five states, as far away as Tennessee. Minnesota Mother Alfred came to plan an even larger expansion of the academy. The local bishop opposed this idea and ordered the Sisters to replace her with a new Superior General. One of her first companions, Sister Alberta, accepted the post temporarily. She then assigned Mother Alfred to go to Rochester to build Our Lady of Lourdes School, at the request of the bishop there. Shortly after that school was opened, Bishop Foley of Joliet expelled Mother Alfred from the congregation. Bishop Grace of Minnesota chose to accept her vows. Mother Alfred's permanent successor as Superior General then informed the Congregation of her expulsion, and offered the Sisters ten days to decide if they wished to join Mother Alfred in Minnesota. Of the whole Congregation, 92 chose to remain in Joliet, while 25 chose to join Mother Alfred. This small group became the nucleus of a new congregation, the Sisters of St. Francis of O.L. of Lourdes.American Catholic website The Sisters began to open a series of successful schools. Following a tornado, which devastated the young city of Rochester in 1883, Mother Alfred saw the need for a hospital in the town. She proposed to Dr. William Worrall Mayo that the Sisters would operate a hospital for the injured and sick if he and his sons would serve as its physicians. Thus they opened St. Mary's Hospital on September 30, 1889. Today that hospital is a part of the Mayo Clinic."History of Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus", Mayo ClinicBelli, Luca. "Mayo Clinic in Rochester", Journal of Medicine and the Person, Settembre 2004, vol.2, numero 3 She died in 1899, aged 71. See also *Women of Mayo Clinic References Sources *Kraman, Carlan, O.S.F. Odyssey in Faith: The Story of Mother Alfred Moes. Rochester, MN: Sisters of St. Francis, 1990. External links * St. Mary's Hospital (Rochester) * Category:1828 births Category:1899 deaths Category:People from Remich Category:People from Rochester, Minnesota Category:American Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns Category:Catholic Church in Illinois Category:Catholic Church in Minnesota Category:Third Order Regular Franciscans Category:Luxembourgian emigrants to the United States Category:Founders of Catholic religious communities Category:Religious leaders from Minnesota Category:Religious leaders from Illinois Category:Catholics from Minnesota "
"Sunderland College, is a further education, higher education college based in Sunderland, North East England. The enrolment includes around 6,300 part-time learners and approximately 4,800 full-time students. A report following a January 2010 Ofsted inspection awarded the school a Grade 2 (good) that included a Grade 1 (outstanding) on 3 inspection criteria.Ofsted inspection report 2010 retrieved 29 July 2010 The college is a member of the Collab Group of high performing schools. About The college is a multi-centre establishment, with three campuses throughout North East England, these are Bede Campus, City Campus, and Washington Campus. In addition to Hartlepool Sixth Form. History Statistically, Sunderland College has held the top position of colleges and sixth forms in Sunderland - achieving the best grades locally in comparison with St. Aidan's RC, St. Anthony's RC and St. Robert's of Newminster, in recent years. Hartlepool Sixth Form merged with Sunderland College in September 2017 and in March 2019, Northumberland College merged with Sunderland College. This created Education Partnership North East, one of the largest college groups in the country. Bede Campus The college's Bede Campus, which is situated close to Sunderland City Centre on Durham Road (A690), is in the buildings of the former Bede School which began as Sunderland Higher Grade School in 1890 (near the West Park, now the site of Sunderland Civic Centre). In 1905 the school was renamed Bede Collegiate School, with separate Boys and Girls' Schools, and in 1927 the foundation stones were laid for new school buildings on Durham Road, current site of Bede Campus of Sunderland College. Following the 1944 Education Act the two schools became Grammar Schools: the Girls' School had around 500 girls in the 1950s, and by the 1960s the Boys' School had over 900 boys. In 1971 Bede School became a co-educational non-selective Comprehensive School, closing in 1991 a year after celebrating its centenary. Both the Boys' and Girls' Schools of the original school and the successor Comprehensive School were referred to, locally, as Bede School or 'The Bede'. Bede Campus is the specialist centre for health and care, digital, A-Levels, sports and visual and performing arts courses. It is home to a dedicated sixth form for academic study, science labs, health simulation ward, industry standard digital suite, state-of-the art Sports Academy and £11 million Arts Academy. The campus also includes a Goals Soccer Centre with all-weather 3G 5-a-side pitches. City Campus In the heart of Sunderland, the £30 million City Campus has an extensive range of industry-standard equipment for vocational study from specialist construction and engineering workshops to a simulated aircraft for Travel and Tourism students. In addition there is commercial hair, barbering and beauty salons, a travel agency, restaurant and kitchens. Washington Campus In September 2006, Sunderland College opened its brand-new £10 million Washington campus on Stone Cellar Road in Washington, Tyne and Wear, which then won the award for Public Sector Building of the Year at The Journal Landmark Awards. It is on the site of the former Usworth School just off the A195 near the junction with the A194(M) in Usworth and Concord. Facilities Each of the college's centres has its own Learning Centre where students can have access to networked computers, borrow books from the library, or a quiet place to study. Refectories, cafes, shops and common rooms are all available at each of the campuses. There is also access to the media facilities and libraries of the University of Sunderland Notable alumni * George Clarke (architect) - Architect and television presenter * Lauren Laverne - TV/radio personality and former presenter of the BBC's The Culture Show * Gareth Pugh - fashion designer *The Futureheads - English post-punk band from Sunderland =Bede Grammar School for Boys= * Don Airey, Musician, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne..etc. * Alan Brien, journalist * Sir David Cairns, a former Lord Justice of Appeal from 1970–77 * Prof Alan Cowey F.R.S., Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Oxford from 1981–2002, and President of the European Brain and Behaviour Society from 1986-8 * Sir Tom Cowie OBE, transport entrepreneur * Rod Culbertson, Actor * Prof Samuel Newby Curle FRSE, mathematician * Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, Labour MP for Bishop Auckland from 1979–2005 * Rt Rev David George Galliford, Bishop of Bolton from 1984–91 * Sydney Goldstein, Mathematics professor at the Victoria University of Manchester and aerodynamicist * Sir David Harrison CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter from 1984–94 and the University of Keele from 1979–84 * Marcus Lipton CBE, Labour MP for Brixton from 1945–74, then Lambeth Central from 1974-8 * Prof James McFarlane, Professor of European Literature from 1964-82 at the University of East Anglia * David Parfitt, film producer * David Rock, architect and President of RIBA from 1986-7 and 1995-7 * Dave Stewart, Musician, Eurythmics. * Sir James Taylor MBE, physicist and President of the Institute of Physics from 1966-8 * Neville Thurlbeck, chief reporter for News of the World and reporter of the Beckham/Loos affair * Prof Alan Woodruff CMG OBE, Wellcome Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine from 1952-81 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine References External links * * EduBase Category:Education in the City of Sunderland Category:Further education colleges in Tyne and Wear Category:Sunderland "
"Spain in 1037. Gonzalo's kingdom is shown in green, the same colour as Aragon, which annexed it in 1043. (Click to enlarge.) Gonzalo Sánchez ( 1020 – 26 June 1043) was the king of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza, two small Pyrenean counties, from 1035 until his death. He was the son of King Sancho III of Navarre and his wife, Muniadona of Castile. Before his death in 1035, Sancho divided his kingdom between his sons, leaving Sobrarbe and Ribagorza to Gonzalo. He governed them as vassal of his elder brother, García Sánchez III, who had inherited Navarre.In contemporary documents, sometimes both counties are named—domino Gondesalbo in Suprabi et in Ripacorza—other times one is singled out and the other ignored. Gonzalo is thought to have been ineffectual and unpopular, with vassals defecting to his half-brother, Ramiro I of Aragon, during his own lifetime. Within a decade of his death, his reign was being ignored and he was left out of a list of rulers of Ribagorza. Reign On 14 April 1035, according to a document preserved in the monastery of San Juan de la Peña, Sancho III granted Aragon to his eldest but illegitimate son Ramiro. In the same act the castle of Loarre and monastery of San Emeterio with their dependent villages were detached from Aragon and given to Gonzalo as part of his inheritance.Pérez de Urbel, pp. 14–16. There is no indication that the brothers were on poor terms. Gonzalo subsequently confirmed many charters alongside his brother and they often appear together in dating clauses.On 25 May 1036, Gonzalo confirmed the donation by a certain Lady Blasquita to San Juan de la Peña of the village of Ballarán with the dating clause "the lord king Ramiro reigning in Aragon and his brother Gonzalo in Sobrarbe" (regnante rex domino Ranimiri in Aragone et frater ejus Gondesalbus in Superarbi), cited in Pérez de Urbel, p. 18. Gonzalo was present with all his brothers and his brother-in-law, King Vermudo III of León, when Ramiro granted arras (a nuptial gift) to his future wife, Ermesinda of Bigorre on 22 August 1036. In Ramiro's charter recording the gift, Gonzalo is given the title of king. In 1037 Gonzalo joined his brothers García and Ramiro to confirm a donation of Jimeno Garcés, Ramiro's godfather, to the monastery of Leire. In this document García uses the title princeps (prince, from Latin for "foremost") to indicate his suzerainty over his brothers, while Ramiro and Gonzalo use the title regulus (petty king).In this document, both Ramiro and Gonzalo are referred to as ruling "in Aragon" (in Aragone). This meeting probably took place either in Leire or else in García's capital, Pamplona. Neither the day nor the month is preserved in the record. The use of a royal title, even one as low as regulus, in the presence of his suzerain, García, is strong evidence that Gonzalo did not usurp a royal title, but that Sancho III intended to create kingdoms for Gonzalo and Ramiro.Cf. Pérez de Urbel, p. 19–20. Gonzalo joined all his brothers, including the youngest, Ferindand, at Anzánigo in 1037 (or perhaps as late as 1043), after Ferdinand had succeeded to the Kingdom of León. Death Gonzalo's death on 26 June appears in the necrology of the Sobrarbean monastery of San Victorián, but the year is not recorded and has been the subject of much debate. The early modern historian Jerónimo Zurita incorrectly placed it in 1035. José de Moret suggested 1042 or 1043. A late source, the Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña, places it in 1037, but there is charter of disputed authenticity dated September 1039 that is confirmed by Gonzalo.Pérez de Urbel, p. 22. This is a concession of Aznar Atón, lord of Tena, to Aldhelm, abbot of the Ribagorzan monastery of Alaón, witnessed by Ramiro, Ermesinda and Count Raymond III of Pallars Jussà. Its authenticity was denied by Ubieto Arteta. As Ramiro confirmed the rights of Bishops of Urgell in Ribagorza in September 1040, it would appear that Gonzalo was dead by then. Pérez de Urbel thus places it between December 1039 and September 1040 and casts doubt on the dates of several documents mentioning Gonzalo after 1040 (a donation of Blasquita from 1041, a charter of Ramiro's from 1042, and a donation of Ramiro to Atón Garcés in 1043). Accepting these, Ubieto Arteta places Gonzalo's assassination in 1046. Nelson gives reason to believe that it was 1043.Nelson, pp. 230–31. The Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña reports that Gonzalo was assassinated by one of his own knights, Ramonat de Uasconya,The name possibly indicates a Gascon. who threw him from the bridge over the river Esera at Montclús, near Lascorz.Pérez de Urbel, p. 21. He was interred in the monastery of San Victorián.Nelson, pp. 228–29. On his death, García awarded his counties to Ramiro. Gonzalo left no heirs and his short reign was soon forgotten. The Historia silense, written around 1115, does not even mention him in its version of the division of Sancho III's realm. It even records that Ramiro was given the "remote" region of Aragon on account of his illegitimacy, despite the fact that Gonzalo's division was more remote than Aragon and his legitimacy unquestioned. The anonymous Chronica naierensis of about 1200, basing its account entirely on the Silense, likewise ignores Gonzalo and blames Ramiro's position on his illegitimacy.Pérez de Urbel, pp. 4–5. The Liber regum, also from around 1200 but independent of the Silense, nevertheless shows no awareness of Gonzalo.Pérez de Urbel, pp. 6–7. References =Notes= =Sources= *Nelson, Lynn H. "The Aragonese Acquisition of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza." Estudios en Homenaje a Don Claudio Sánchez Albornoz en sus 90 Años, 2 (1982):227–36. *Pérez de Urbel, Justo. "La división del reino por Sancho el Mayor." Hispania, 14, 54 (1954):3–26. *Ubieto Arteta, Antonio. "Gonzalo, rey de Sobrarbe y Ribagorza." Pirineos, 8 (1952): 299–325. *Zurita, Gerónimo. Anales de la Corona de Aragón I. Edited by Antonio Ubieto Arteta and María Desamparados Pérez Soler. Valencia: 1967. Category:1020s births Category:1043 deaths Category:11th-century people from the Kingdom of Pamplona Category:Assassinated Spanish people "