McKeesport Provisory
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Though the erection of the fourth Felician province in Western Pennsylvania was approved, until an adequate provincial house could be constructed, Felician Sisters there lived in a “provisory” — a temporary provincial house. In 1921, they moved into the former St. Barnabas Home, just outside of Pittsburgh in East McKeesport. In its state of disrepair, it was referred to as “the Poor House,” but the sisters remained for eleven years.
Though the erection of the fourth Felician province in Western Pennsylvania was approved, until an adequate provincial house could be constructed, Felician Sisters there lived in a “provisory” — a temporary provincial house. In 1921, they moved into the former St. Barnabas Home, just outside of Pittsburgh in East McKeesport. In its state of disrepair, it was referred to as “the Poor House,” but the sisters remained for eleven years.
Felician Sisters pose for a Jubilee photo in the 1920s on the porch and grounds of their provisory, a temporary provincial home. This first convent in Pennsylvania was the former St. Barnabas Home “for injured men and boys.”
A view of the first Felician convent in Pennsylvania, set up on a hill in McKeesport. The Felician Sisters established Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Province in this temporary convent in 1921 until an adequate motherhouse was built in Coraopolis in 1932.
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Date1921 - 1932
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Content TopicOur Lady of the Sacred Heart Province - Coraopolis