Sisters of Providence Motherhouse
The Sisters of Providence of St Vincent de Paul served in many locations around the Connecticut River Valley. When they served an institution they would have a convent nearby to house themselves. This was a decent arrangement but having a motherhouse was better. In 1932 they finally had a motherhouse built for themselves. It is located down Gamelin Road in the Brightside neighborhood. Near the corner of their Brightside motherhouse there was erected a statuefor Catherine Horan who was the first mother superior for the Holyoke order.
You met her back at the Calvary Cemetery for the Sisters of Providence. Great woman with a fitting memorial for her. Their motherhouse is now called Providence Place at Ingleside.
The base of the statue reads:
- “… from the hilltop I view the progress the tiny seed has made under the protection of Divine Providence.”
- Mother Mary of Providence Horan
- July 19, 1850 – January 25 1943 (her obituary)
- Foundress Sisters of Providence Holyoke
| name | range | ||
| Mother Mary of Providence | |||
| Reverend Mother de la Salle | 1953 | ||
| Sister Mary Consilii | 1941 to 1949 at least | ||
| Sister Mary Caritaus | 1971 |
The Sisters of Providence Chapel is very beautiful. It is named the Mother of Sorrows Chapel. The CHAPEL can be seen in all its glory at this LINK. It was finished in 1933. The chapel has a Skinner Organ.
The Sisters of Providence nuns also ran the Mercy Hospital in Springfield, the Farren Memorial Hospital in Montague, the St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, and St. Luke’s Hospital in Pittsfield.
