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In 1877 five Poor Clares arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, and founded the first permanent monastery of their Order in the United States. Drawing on a century of community archives, Sister Mary Camilla Koester traces their story from a rented house on Broadway to the monastery at West Park - through poverty, two world wars, a foundation in Brazil, and post-conciliar renewal.

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Sister Mary Camilla Koester P.C.C.

Sister Mary Camilla Koester was a Colettine Poor Clare nun of the Monastery of Poor Clare Colettines in Cleveland, Ohio, and a devoted historian of her religious community. Through years of meticulous archival research, correspondence, and study of Church records, she documented the remarkable story of the Poor Clares' establishment…