April 2023 News Update

Sister Lauren Weinandt will be featured in the April issue of TODAY Magazine. Here is an excerpt: “Walking the halls of Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester is much like visiting…

April 9, 2023

Sister Mary Kathryn Esch, OSF Sister Mary Kathryn Esch (formerly Sister Leonius), 96, a Franciscan Sister of the Congregation of Our Lady of Lourdes, Rochester, Minnesota, died at Assisi Heights…

Sister Patricia (Pat) Keefe will be honored with a written memorial prepared by Sister Joyce Stemper. Each year the Hennepin County Bar Association (HCBA) holds a special session of the…

Sister Marlys Jax was interviewed for the recent Human Trafficking Awareness program held at Lourdes High School, and co-sponsored by the Spirituality Center: https://news.yahoo.com/olmsted-county-works-eliminate-human-010400015.html   Bishop Robert Barron was interviewed…

Marion Kaple, Cojourner Marion Helena Keeler Kaple was born on November 9, 1939, in Watertown, South Dakota, the only child of Aleta and Charles Keeler. Her father was of Irish…

Dear Friends, Here’s hoping you had a Merry Christmas and best wishes for a happy and healthy 2023 from the Assisi Heights Spirituality Center! When the song of the angels…

Ground broken on new gazebo to continue tradition begun by the Sisters of St. Francis   For more than a century, a gazebo on the Saint Marys Campus in Rochester…

Sister Seton Slater, OSF Sister Seton Slater, 94, a Franciscan Sister of the Congregation of Our Lady of Lourdes, Rochester, MN died at Assisi Heights on Friday, November 18, 2022.…