Brooklyn Visitation Monastery arrived in Downtown Brooklyn and began its service here with prayer and education on September 24, 1855!
The first location was on Johnson and Pearl Streets and the first student to be registered was Julia Morris, later to become Mrs. John Carroll Foley.
The first building had been the residence of once famous Dominic Johnson.
The first Mother Superior was Mother Juliana Matthews who brought five Sisters with her from Baltimore Visitation Monastery. Two others came six months later.
The second location for Monastery and Academy was at Clinton and Willoughby Avenues
and in 1903 both transferred to Bay Ridge at our present location.
Currently there are 10 Sisters residing in the Monastery and the Academy remains a premiere elementary school.
We give glory to God for establishing His Sacred Heart Sanctuary at Visitation Monastery all these years in our Diocese of Brooklyn!
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