Sisters of St. Joseph announce they will sell their motherhouse of 150 years in St. Augustine [Video]

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Uploaded: 2024-10-29T18:26:57+00:00
Description: They say the building is too big and they need a place that better suits the needs of their aging sisters.

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Post date October 29, 2024

They say the building is too big and they need a place that better suits the needs of their aging sisters.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — One of St. Augustine’s longest-living communities is selling their home.

The Sisters of St. Joseph – the nuns who live in St. Augustine — announced Monday they are putting their historic motherhouse on the market. They are also selling two other buildings they own.

The Sisters of St. Joseph have lived in the motherhouse on St. George Street for 150 years.

The three-story motherhouse has a chapel where mass is held daily, a kitchen, a TV room, even a swimming pool for water therapy, humble bedrooms with twin beds and long balconies. Personal touches such as plants and seashells on tables sit on some of the balconies.

The Sisters of St. Joseph came from France to teach freed slaves in the 1860s. The cornerstone for …