Sancta Maria Convent -- Panhandle TX
N 35° 20.283 W 101° 22.371
14S E 284347 N 3913116
The convent of the School Sisters of St Francis on the outskirts of Panhandle TX
Waymark Code: WMKFT8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/08/2014
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A Franciscan Convent on the outskirts of Panhandle TX still serves as the home of the School Sisters of St Francis.
From the Franciscan's website:
"Our Community History - Texas (Brief edition)! After working in many apostolates and being educated in the central and eastern United States, the Sisters were looking and praying for a place to create a Regional House for all the Sisters to live in one place. It happened that the Bishop of the Amarillo Diocese was looking for Sisters to staff a Catholic Children's Home, new Catholic Schools, and eventually a new Catholic Nursing Home (opened in 1963).
In 1954, the School Sisters migrated to Texas to begin their new lives. Since then we have been fundamental in the opening and staffing of schools in our diocese and in other areas in the state. We have served in so many schools, helping to found some, but mostly doing our best to love each person we come into contact with. We are currently ministering only in the Amarillo diocese as the harvest is more than plentiful here in this mission territory.
The Catholic Children's Home was established in 1954, donated by the late Rose Gordon. After 40 years of loving and caring for the children that needed a temporary home, we had to close it in 1994.
We have so many good memories from there! People that have lived there stop by from time to time to reminesce and to see the Sisters that used to care for them. - See more at: (
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