Carmel, Monastery of Our Lady and St Joseph

In November 1889, Boston's Archbishop Williams was in Baltimore, while there, he visited the Baltimore Carmelite Monastery where he learned that their community had its maximum of 21 sisters and had to turn away young women. It was then that the nuns expressed their desire to found a monastery in Boston, an idea greatly welcomed by the Archbishop.

Boston Carmel was founded in 1890 from Baltimore Carmel, one hundred years after Baltimore Carmel's establishment as the first foundation of religious women in the United States.

See Website: carmelitesofboston.org

Our Lady of Victories Church

Originally, the church was the dream of French-speaking Fr. Leon Bouland and it is still officially a French National Church, even though no services are conducted in French. The Marist Fathers arrived in the United States in 1880. In 1885 the Marists bought the land on Isabella Street and in 1886 dedicated this church where they still serve today.

See Website Marists Boston: #NULL

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