


The first group of Maryknoll Sisters went to southern China on Sept. Dominic (Dominicans of the Third Order), and Mary Joseph was elected superior general, a position she held until her resignation in 1946. 14, 1920, they received papal approbation as a diocesan religious congregation, the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. They were recognized by the pope in January 1917 as a sisterhood devoted to foreign missions, thus being called Dominican Tertiaries of the Foreign Missions. Under the protection of the archbishop of New York, the Teresians were trained for the religious life, and in February 1916 they became Dominican Tertiaries. In 1912 the society gave her and five companions a house at Hawthorne, N.Y., where the lay group subsequently became known as Teresians (after St. Her interest in missionary work grew when she joined the staff of Field Afar, the magazine of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll Missioners), which Walsh had cofounded in 1911.

She was graduated in 1905 from Smith College, Northampton, Mass., where she had been encouraged by Father James Walsh to establish a constructive activity for Roman Catholic students. Dominic, popularly called the Maryknoll Sisters, an American religious congregation devoted specifically to foreign mission work. 9, 1955, New York City original name Mary Josephine Rogers founder of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Meaning of ROGERS, MARY JOSEPH in Englishīorn Oct.
