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Feast Day of St. Angela Merici Highlights The College Of New Rochelle
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- The College of New Rochelle celebrated the feast day of St. Angela Merici, founder of the Ursuline Sisters, on Thursday, Jan. 28, with events that focused on Ursuline service. Community members assembled for mass in the Holy Family Chapel, where Fr. Joseph Flynn, noted that St. Angela “was able to give love a concreteness in her time” when she decided that, rather than being cloistered, the Ursulines would serve and live among the poor.
Following the mass, a reception was held in Leland Castle at which the Ursuline Service Awards were presented to students and alumni r…