Before we were the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, “we” were simply seven young Dominican women sent from Kentucky to central Illinois to teach immigrant children. Those seven had no idea, in 1873, that they would become the wisdom figures for generations of Dominican Sisters to follow them.

Here are their stories. Here are our stories.

Josephine Meagher & Judine Hilbing

Rachel Conway and Barbara Ann Bogenschutz

Cecilia Carey and Concepta Joerger

Catherine Young and Beth Murphy

Letitia Wight and Megan Farrelly

Elizabeth Simpson and Kathleen Anne Tait

Agnes Maguire and Maira Barry

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