St. Mary’s Mission School (Red Lake, MN)
Benedictine Sisters first came to Red Lake in 1899, when they opened a day school associated with St. Mary’s Mission. They expanded service to become a boarding school the following year. When government contracts for boarding schools ended in 1899, the Benedictines continued to staff schools, but by the 1940s offered education for day students only . The Sisters teaching in these schools received no salaries but were supported by their home monastery, Saint Benedict's. At their peak, St. Mary’s had 80-100 students every year.
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For more information about St. Mary’s Mission at Red Lake, see
Lindblad, O. (1997). Full of fair hope : A history of St. Mary's Mission, Red Lake, Minnesota. St. Joseph, MN: O. Lindblad [self-published].
MacDonald, G. (1957). With lamps burning.
St. Joseph, Minn.: St. Benedict’s Priory Press