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HISTORY The year 1822 marked the founding of the first North American congregation of Dominican women at St. Catharine's convent in Sienna Vale, Kentucky. Fifty-one years later, on August 19, 1873, six Sisters from St. Catherine's arrived in Jacksonville, Illinois at the request of Father P.J. Macken, who was seeking teachers for his parish school. These six Sisters established the congregation now known as the Springfield Dominicans.

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