People can drive onto the peaceful campus, attend mass services and notice the details of the convent buildings in northwest Rochester. Assisi Heights ... (one) is symbols of Mary.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The sisters refer to it as "going off the hill," and, in ordinary times, it meant simply leaving the Assisi Heights convent for a trip to downtown Rochester. Nothing has been ...

regularly sat in front of the window in her room at the Motherhouse and watched as construction workers built a new lakefront convent for the SIsters of St. Francis of Assisi. Gardner ...

ST. FRANCIS - A new convent for the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi is planned for the former Marian Center and St. Mary’s Academy site to make life more convenient for the Sisters. The common ...

The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi will replace the Marian Center for Nonprofits in St. Francis, which closed this summer, with a new convent. The Marian Center for Nonprofits was a two ...

In the recently transformed NUN Assisi Relais & Spa Museum, formerly the Saint Catherine Convent, it can be both-- with a double dose of history: Roman columns, part of an ancient amphitheater ...