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Bernadette Armiger
Bernadette Armiger, DC (April 7, 1915 – May 21, 1979) was an Catholic Church in the United States, American Catholic religious sisters' who served as a nursing college dean, mental health advocate, and president of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing from 1972 to 1974. The AACN gives the Sister Bernadette Armiger Award to nurses in the US who show outstanding leadership in education at the collegiate level. She was a member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Early life and education She was born Mary Elsa Armiger (Elsa) to Sara L. Harcourt Armiger (known as Sallie, Sally, or Muma) and Joseph Griffith Armiger, an accountant for the Internal Revenue Service. Elsa was the middle of seven children. She attended St. Martin's Grade School and then when the family moved switched to the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Utica, Maryland, both run by Daughters of Charity.[CITE] Then she went to Seton High School, later known as Seton Keough High School, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church In The United States
The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion, communion with the pope, who as of 2025 is Chicago, Illinois-born Pope Leo XIV, Leo XIV. With 23 percent of the United States' population , the Catholic Church is the country's second-largest religious grouping after Protestantism in the United States, Protestantism, and the country's largest single church if Protestantism is divided into separate Christian denomination, denominations. In a 2020 Gallup, Inc., Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic. The United States has the fourth-largest Catholic Church by country, Catholic population in the world, after Catholic Church in Brazil, Brazil, Catholic Church in Mexico, Mexico, and the Catholic Church in the Philippines, Philippines. History Catholicism has had a significant cultural, social, and political impact on the United States. Early colonial period One of the Thirteen Colonies of British America, the Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
