The school originally included an orphanage run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart until 1950.
The Missionary Sisters remained at St. Bonaventure until the 1960s.
"I went into the Missionary Sisters when I was seventeen and they sent me to college."
The school was founded in 1956 by the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood as a convent.
The Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary now work 23 countries mostly in the areas of education and religious communication.
The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart together with lay associates.
It is staffed by one Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart and 16 lay faculty.
She founded the Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart.
That same year he founded the Congregation of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity.
Long after her death, the Missionary Sisters would achieve Mother Cabrini's goal of being missionaries to China.