Community of the Transfiguration

As new nuns working to organize a community, Sister Beatrice and Mother Eva envisioned an order patterned after the lives of Mary and Martha from the Bible.

The order's first home was on Freeman Ave. in the City of Cincinnati, where Mother Eva's brother served as the Rector of St. Luke's, the local Episcopal Church.

Working with mothers and children to promote education and basic sanitation, the order developed a following in the area and built a larger group of sisters.

In the summer 1898, the Sisterhood purchased land at the top of a hill in Glendale, a secluded area, then well North of the city of Cincinnati.

The Sisters live under the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience, and pray the Divine Office four times each day.