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Bethlehem Convent, 
Tehachepi, California, U.S.A.
Norbertine Association of St. Joseph}

. . . THIS MAY TAKE A MOMENT OR TWO . . .

This is a photograph of Mother Mary Augustine making her First Profession, momentous occasion in our Association's history.  Here Mother receives her black veil from our Father Abbot, Eugene Hayes, St. Michael's Abbey, Orange, California.

Two Norbertine Sisters at the site of Bethlehem Convent in Tehachepi, California.

Mother Rose, Mother Mary Augustine, and Father Abbot Eugene Hayes enjoy a light moment with the Dominican Nuns in Buffalo, New York. 

 

Here a Norbertine Sister from Tehachepi, left, visits with and learns from a European Norbertine canoness.

What a great blessing to be able to pray before the relics of St. Norbert at the reconstituted monastery of Strahov, in Prague, Czech Republic!

In Krakow, Poland, Mother Mary Augustine venerates the relics of Blessed Bronislava, a Norbertine Canoness.

The Sisters stand before the Chapel of St. John the Baptist at Premontre, site of Order Headquarters prior to the French Revolution.

At the current Order Headquarters -- the Generalate in Rome, from left to right: Sr. Mary Stephen, Procurator General and House Rector Father Cyril L. Caals, Sr. Mary Joannes Baptista, then Father Abbot General Hermenegild J. Noyens, Sr. Mary Emily, Mother Mary Augustine, and Sr. Mary Joseph.
Founding Sisters of the Bethlehem Convent at St. Michael's Abbey, Silverado, California, with Abbot Emeritus L. K. Parker (left) and Abbot Eugene Hayes (right).