At 5:30 a.m., the soft peal of bells signals the sisters at the Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary in Snellville that it’s time to begin their day. The early bell means “Our Spouse is calling.

Turn off the busy, four-lane road in the heart of Mobile, Alabama, through the gate and onto the grounds of the Visitation Monastery and you enter a different world. The outer walls surrounding the ...

TYRINGHAM — Sister Mary Gabrielle Muth VHM, 90, of the Sisters of the Visitation in Tyringham, died Tuesday at home in the Monastery of her Order. Born in Baltimore, on Oct. 8, 1916, she was the ...

On Sept. 4, for the first time in 169 years, Visitation Academy in Bay Ridge was quiet on the first day of classes. The school permanently closed its doors last summer, with the monastery soon to ...

BAY RIDGE — Students who attended Visitation Academy before it closed earlier this year now have a new home, thanks to Fontbonne Hall Academy, also in Bay Ridge. During the previous academic year, the ...

Rock Island welcomed its first Visitation nuns on a hot day in August, 1899, when a little group of Sisters came to the old Reynolds mansion at 2939 Fifth Avenue just a block from the railroad tracks ...