Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross

In essence, the sisters practice "simplicity, hospitality, and prayer that is centered on the Cross of Jesus Christ, the sacred Word of Scripture, and the Holy Eucharist.

[5] Seeing the need for teachers, Father Daems asked two local women – Pauline LaPlante ( - 1926) and Christine Rousseau ( - 1900)[4] – to come home from their formation with the Dominican Order[6] in Racine, Wisconsin, (about 150 miles south), to teach and provide medical care to the Belgian residents.

With the help of Sister Pius Doyle and Mary Van Lanen, a neighboring farm girl, the four women became the religious community's founding members.

[9] With the motherhouse located in rural Green Bay, the Sisters spent their early years primarily teaching the area schoolchildren and farming much of their land in Brown County.

As membership grew, the Sisters accepted more teaching requests from parish priests and expanded their religious instruction to the Chapel in Robinsonville, Wisconsin, in 1902.