Mother Leonarda - Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters in the … of our missions in the South 1909 - 1996...

Mother Leonarda

A life Blessed, Broken and Shared.

Elizabeth Lentrupp Born on March 8, 1874.

Her Parents

The Family Home

St. Arnold Janssen

St. Michaels, Steyl

Mother Maria

Mother Josepha

Sr. Leonarda’s First Vows

June 13, 1897

From Steyl to Techny

April 26, 1901

Sr. Leonarda, Sr. Foureria, Sr. Martina, Sr. Alexia, Sr. Clara

The Sisters first home.

1901 – 1971

ST JOSEPH’S

Technical School

Divine Word Seminary

TECHNY ILLINOIS

1901 -1960

St Norbert’s School

Northbrook

1903 – 1983, St. Ann’s Home

September 8, 1904

Perpetual Vows

1906 - 1975

St. Mary’s Convent

Vicksburg, Mississippi

1907

The growing Region is elevated to the status of

Province. Sr. Leonarda,

First Provincial

Expansion of our missions in the South

1909 - 1996 Holy Ghost Convent, Jackson, MS

1910 - 1975 St. Joseph School, Meridian, MS

1910 – 1975 St. Bartholomew Convent,

Little Rock, AR

1912

Holy Spirit Sisters in Techny open a department for making Church

vestments

HOLY GHOST ACADEMY

1 911-1935

1912 – 1913

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Granite City, IL

1912 – 1969 Sacred Heart Mission House

Girard, PA 1913 – 1915

St. Mary’s School Kickapoo, IL

1914- 1964 St. Mary’s Hospital

Watertown, WI

1914- 1920 Sacred Heart College

Watertown, WI

1915

Holy Spirit Convent Techny, Holy Ghost Institute & Holy Ghost Academy

1914 – 1931

Kenrick Seminary St. Louise, MO

1917-1990 St. Joseph's Hospital

Newhampton, Iowa

1918-1998 The Sacred Heart Home,

Hyattsville, Maryland 1927-1964

St. Margaret’s Guild Milwaukee WI

1928 – 1953 Little Flower Retreat House

St. Louise, MO

St. Therese Hospital, Waukegan

1929-1988

Journey’s End

M. Leonarda died on

June 26, 1937

The Mission Continues

Techny

Memphis

Grayslake/Chicago

Antigua

New York

Epworth

Waukegan

St. Kitts

Go Servants of the Holy Spirit and with open hearts turn

toward the new challenges in the world today .