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The Sisters have their Motherhouse at Victory-Noll, Huntington, Indiana. The Community has grown rapidly to a membership of 340. It has extended the scope of its missionary labors steadily. At present the Sisters have 48 convents scattered throughout the United States in 19 dioceses with over 50,000 children under instruction. The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Victory endeavor to reach the children who do not enjoy the advantages of a parochial school. They specialize in religious instruction and guidance, and conduct Religious Vacation Schools in town and city parishes which have no parochial schools. The first four Missionary Sisters of this Society came to Texas in September, 1928, to the Diocese of Amarillo, and established their convent in St. Joseph's Parish, Lubbock. They now have a school of over 1200 children, and teach not only in Lubbock, but also in Brownfield, Hale Center, Levelland, Littlefield, Meadow, Morton, Pep, Plainview, and Tahoka. In 1935 other members came to the Diocese of El Paso: four to Cristo Rey Parish and five to San Xavier. They now have a convent in the Immaculate Conception Parish with an enrollment in their school of close to 300 children. In 1946 they opened a second convent in the Amarillo Diocese at San Angelo. Four Sisters teach from there the children in San Angelo, Big Lake, Bronte, Mertzen, Ozona, Sonora, and Sterling. They have an en- rollment in their schools of over 1000. The Sisters Catechists came to the San Antonio Archdiocese in 1944 and established a convent in Guadalupe Parish in San Antonio. Five Sisters, besides those in San Antonio, teach at Brackenridge, Charlotte, Fort Sam, Herff, Lanier, Johnson, Margil, Poteet, and Zanela. The total enrollment is near 16,000. Big Spring was the location of their third convent in the Diocese of Amarillo in 1944. The four Sisters there also teach over 100 boys and girls in Ackerly, Coahoma, Lamesa, Midland, Odessa, O'Donnel, Sand Spring, and Stanton. In September, 1951, the Sisters Catechists came to the Dioceses of Dallas and Austin. They teach Catechism to the public school children; have convert classes; conduct sodalities and choirs; take the Parish Cen- sus; engage in Social Service Work; visit the hospital patients; distribute food and clothing to the poor; visit families and, in this way they are
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