![]() Visitors began to come to OLAM, evidently drawn to the quiet Presence in the chapel. ![]() ![]() Mother and the Nuns were received by the people of Birmingham with great love and tremendous support. A few months later, Sister Veronica, formerly the abbess of Sancta Clara Monastery transferred to the fledgling community. Mother Angelica’s mother, Mae Francis, entered as an extern postulant on the same day. Mother Angelica and the founding Sisters took up residence in the monastery, inaugurating our life of prayer and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament here in the South. On May 20, 1962, Our Lady of the Angels Monastery was dedicated by Archbishop Toolen. On May 8, 1962, Mother Angelica, Sister Raphael, Sister Joseph, Sister Michael and Sister Assumpta, the founding Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, left Sancta Clara Monastery in Canton OH for the new foundation in Alabama.
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