Last week we took you back in time to the Mount’s very beginnings. This week, we’re fa...
MdeC Project
Welcome to the MdeC Archive project. Mount de Chantal was an All-Girl school located in Wheeling, WV. In 2008 she closed her doors after 160 years. Sadly efforts to save the building failed and she was demolished in 2011. Her stories are hidden in the Archives. This project is to share her stories and keep her memory alive.
Archive Visit 16: From the Class of ’55, “A Future Worthy of the Past”
Last week we took you back in time to the Mount’s very beginnings. This week, we’re fa...
Archive Visit 15: Harp Lessons Cost Extra
What did it cost to attend the Mount in the early days? The very, very early days? The...
Cheers to 14 Blogs: Friendship, Coffee, and a basement full of Memories
This blog began with a proposition that seemed impossible: the chance to explore a base...
Archive Visit 13: Letters of Springtime, Music, and Roller Skates
Many of our readers can tell the story of what it was like to be a Mount student during...
Archive Visit 12: The Letter from the Martyr
A newspaper article. A portion of a letter that looks like it could still be brand new....
Advent Friends, 'Oh, Holy Night', and a Sailor Moon Wand: Your Mount Christmas Memories
If there’s one thing we all universally share about Christmas, it’s our memories. And f...
Archive Visit 10: A Mount grad’s story of War and Pandemic and Candy Canes
Picture if you will a cold, crisp night at an Army encampment at the very end of World ...
Archive Visit 9: The Treasures within Sister Aimee’s Attic
Thanks in no small part to cable television, collectors often get a bad rep. Part of th...
Archive Visit 8: Keep an eye on the Silver & Don’t Worry about Boys. Advice for Turkey Dinner or Advice for life?
Everything you do reflects upon the reputation of the school. Therefore, in placing you girls in complete charge of the Turkey Supper, Mount de Chantal is putting her reputation into your hands – which is the greatest honor and mark of confidence that the Sisters can give you.
Archive Visit 7 –It’s Turkey Dinner Time!
There’s not a Mountie alive who doesn’t salivate at the words “Turkey Dinner”. Whether ...
Archive Visit Number Six: The Intangible Contributions of Extraordinary Women
With the news that Kamala Harris will serve as the next Vice President of the United St...
Archive Visit Number Five: “Make your choice; either be burned alive in the cellar or have yourselves killed in the street.” The Harrowing story of the Monastery of Lafelt
On May 10, 1940, at 4 a.m., our monastery was suddenly bombed. We were able to get into the cellar without meeting any accidents. At 7 a.m. a solider came to show us a bloody bone, saying: “This your Chaplain’s skull,” and then he asked us if any of us had been wounded. Towards 11 a.m., another solder brought us the sacred Ciborium, saying: “You have no longer any Tabernacle.”
Archive Visit Number Four: Picture Postcards from the Front Lines
Along with the many letters shared with the Sisters of the Visitation at Mount de Chant...
Archive Visit Number Three: Linens and Vitamins and a Sister with a Station Wagon
CARE was recognized by all European countries, and its food packages reached their destination without serious damage. Monasteries in countries that were in “enemy territory” were included. Our collection of their letters of gratitude is touching, even in these late years of the 20th Century.
Archive Visit Number Two: “We were once, but very, very long ago, small like you…”
The approach of the machines was heard. They started praying aloud again altogether. It was the Rosary. Everybody prayed. An alternative of thundering was heard. The heads were bent. Everyone felt death hovering above him.
Archive Visit Number One: “Great distress, sickness and misery raging”
“How can we express in words all they had been obliged to suffer from fright and anxiety, from artillery fire, from pillage and expulsion?”
Introducing the Mount de Chantal Archives
I’m willing to bet that more than few of you reading this have had dreams about the Mou...
1925 Forward - MdeC
"Welcome, oh! welcome!" sounds the glad refrain That lingers long in cadence sweet and ...