A community founded from the Philadelphia house in 1860 by Mother Agnes Spencer of Carondelet. Villa Maria Academy was made the mother-house for the Erie diocese in 1897. The congregation manages a college and academy, hospitals, a day nursery, an orphanage, a training school for boys, and a home for the aged, besides parochial schools, in the Diocese of Erie.
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