Congregation of Divine Providence, Mainz

[2] The Sisters of Divine Providence began to serve in the Americas in 1876, now present in the United States, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and Peru.

As part of his efforts to serve the struggling people of his diocese, he founded the Sisters of Divine Providence in the Mainz borough of Finthen on 29 October 1851.

In 1876 the congregation answered the request for teachers of Richard Gilmour, the Bishop of Cleveland, and sent six sisters to the United States to begin a new foundation, under the leadership of Xavier Schneider.

As the community expanded, they began to staff parochial schools in the region and eventually became St. Peter's Province, comprised by the sisters in the United States.

[7] Aloysia Bansbach, the new Provincial Superior of the Province of St. Peter, would visit her brother, who was a resident of St. Louis, Missouri.

He wanted to convert the hospital to serve the Catholic community of the region, which included a large German immigrant population, and he invited Bansbach to purchase it for that purpose.

The Provincial Council agreed to the sale and in January 1921 six Sisters of Divine Providence arrived at the hospital and assumed responsibility for it.

They operated Mount Providence School for Boys in Normandy, Missouri, for 64 years, which also served as the provincial motherhouse.

In addition to their other challenges to service on the Caribbean island, for ten years they had to share a house with the family from whom they had purchased it.