Walking Jubilee in New Rochelle is always an adventure, including the elevator we have to take down from a 6th floor apartment. Every house in the neighborhood is different. This house has a Ferris Wheel in the window ...
Interesting people must live there.
But inevitably, we always make our way over the College of New Rochelle. For one thing, the sidewalks are much wider. It is always a pretty place, and with the students gone for the holidays, very quiet and empty.
This is St. Angela Merici, founder of the Ursulines who lived from 1470(?) - 1540.
The sign under her statue reads:
She taught far and wide
the faith of the most high God
and everyone loved her.
There is a "castle" feel to the campus.
And lots of squirrels who distract Jubilee ...
A little red tree on the way home.
This was looking down a street early one morning.
I had dreamed of attending CNR. Now, at last, I see its lovely campus. I couldn't get a scholarship and there was no way my family would pay for room and board there. I suppose it was for the best ... I would not have fit in.
ReplyDeleteI knew one girl who went there, Barbara - and had never heard of this school until I was in college. It used to be an all girl school, right?
ReplyDeleteI think you did well with SLU!
While I was walking home from CNR one day I saw an older nun approaching Jubilee and I. (I could tell she was a nun by the big cross she wore.) When we met, she asked me if I had seen the Westminster dog show on TV the day before. (I hadn't). Well, a terrier had won best of show, and Jubilee must be a terrier. I said "Yes, an Irish terrier". They have an attitude, don't they? she said. I laughed and said, indeed they do. She was a very sweet woman. Seemed so centered and present.
I went to Notre Dame College of Staten Island (now assimilated into St. John's U) as an undergrad. Both the Ursulines and the Congregation of Notre Dame have strong roots in Quebec, so I believe the nuns felt some kind of rivalry between the schools. NDC ran a poor second, alas, in general, but it gave me a scholarship and I could live at home. I went to SLU for grad school. They no longer award a PhD in chem. I have a knack for closing schools! ;)
ReplyDeleteI used to encounter an Ursuline from CNR at chemical education conferences -- a warm and intelligent woman. Her research involved analyzing ancient religious artwork, fascinating.
Are the Cong of Notre Dame Sisters at Iona College (also in New Rochelle)? I believe Kathleen Deignan, the musician and liturgist who has put together a couple of Merton books, is a Notre Dame sister. She is at Iona.
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about the Ursuline sisters. There are schools in Louisville that were run by them - my mother's alma mater, Sacred Heart Academy is one I think.
I never considered that there would be a difference between the different orders, but it does make sense that there would be.
Kathleen Deignan is a CND, but Iona is not their college. I believe it was founded by Irish Christian Bros. They are a progressive order, well-educated, spunky like their foundress, Ste Marguerite Bourgeois. Even the ones I met in Japan had that pioneer woman kind of spunk and independence.
ReplyDeleteThe OSU, like the CND, were founded to be active, noncloistered communities. The OSU, an older community, eventually got roped in. Bl. Marie de l'Incarnation was an OSU (I visited her tomb in the chapel of the Ursuline convent school in Quebec City). She was a widow with a son when she entered the OSU and she volunteered to go to the missions in Quebec. She taught the people of the First Nations and even assembled a dictionary for their language. She was also a mystic. Both women are honoured as foundresses of Quebec.