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Leaded glass window hanging to celebrate the 75-year anniversary of the Felician Sisters in North America.

This altar stone was used at the original Immaculate Conception Province's infirmary.

The Felician Sisters of the Lodi, New Jersey province began their healthcare ministry in the rural Southwest, at Blackwell General Hospital in Blackwell, Oklahoma.

The key to the front door of the original motherhouse in Lodi, New Jersey.

Upon professing her perpetual vows, each sister wore a crown of thorns that she created.

Sister Ramona Borkowski, Sister Rose Marie Smiglewski, and Sister Mary Loretta Borkowski founded the Felician School for Exceptional Children in 1971. 

Founded in 1923 as a teacher-training school, Felician Sisters worked to transform Immaculate Conception Junior College into Felician University, the only Franciscan university in New Jersey and one of only a few nationwide.

Immaculate Conception High School was founded in 1915 to educate aspirants and, in 1923, lay students. A building was erected on campus for the thriving school that opened in 1960.

Seven orphans were the nucleus of what would become the Immaculate Conception Home, a ministry that opened in 1926 and served 1,500 homeless children over the next half century.