Benedictine sisters come to Atchison, Kansas, to teach school for girls, at the request of Benedictine monks who are already here teaching school for boys. An icon of Mother Evangelista Kremmter, our founding prioress is pictured at the left.

Benedictine sisters come to Atchison, Kansas, to teach school for girls, at the request of Benedictine monks who are already here teaching school for boys. An icon of Mother Evangelista Kremmter, our founding prioress is pictured at the left.The first mission is established outside of Atchison: Sisters go out to live and teach in Seneca, Kansas. The sisters spread to other towns in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado, on teaching missions.

Mount St. Scholastica receives eight Benedictine sisters from France, who are refugees from the 1904 expulsion of priests and religious in that country.A daughterhouse, Covenant Monastery, is established in Harlan, Iowa. It remains a dependent priory. This marks the end of the Mount sisters’ organized teaching missions in Iowa.Former Mount St. Scholastica College and Academy building emptied of contents and sold at auction. Atchison USD 409 Public Middle School lease the building while their building is remodeled.