How Seven Oaks Farm became the Notre Dame Sisters Motherhouse and Academy
A Poultry Farm in Florence
On March 3, 1855, the United States government granted many land grants to its officers and soldiers. The widow Mrs. Rhoda Rich obtained a tract of 160 acres in the Florence, Nebraska area as a pension after her deceased husband, Israel Rich, a captain…
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Mother Qualberta Krivanec and bringing the Notre Dame Sisters to America
By Sr. Anita Rolenc, ND
Antonia Krivanec was born on January 15, 1866 in Zabori, Bohemia. The youngest of six children of Vaclav and Marie, Antonia received her education in the village elementary school, while taking private German lessons from the parish priest. Antonia enjoyed the woods, meadows and…
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Rev. Gabriel Schneider
The immediate founder of the Czech branch of the Poor School Sisters de Notre Dame, Gabriel Schneider, was born in Krems, Bohemia on March 21, 1812. His pious parents, Matthew…
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History of the Chapel of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The chapel is special to me because it was in the presence of Jesus in the tabernacle that I was received as a novice into the Notre Dame congregation, pronounced my first and final vows, and celebrated my 25th, 50th, and 60th jubilee of vows. It is my…
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No strangers to tough times: read an account of Notre Dame Sisters in a German concentration camps
A letter written by Rev. Mother M. Fabiola was sent by a soldier to his mother in the Holy Name Parish in Omaha. She forwarded it to the Notre Dame Sisters.
“The hardest trial of the past years was that I was absent from the motherhouse (Horazdovice in Czechoslovakia)….