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Poor Clares - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Clares
After an abortive attempt to establish the Order in the United States in the early 1800s by three nuns who were refugees of Revolutionary France, the Poor Clares were not permanently established in the country until the late 1870s.
A small group of Colettine nuns arrived from Düsseldorf, Germany, seeking a refuge for the community, which had been expelled from their monastery by the government policies of the Kulturkampf. They found a welcome in the Diocese of Cleveland, and in 1877 established a monastery in that city. At the urging of Mother Ignatius Hayes, O.S.F., in 1875 Pope Pius IX had already authorized the sending of nuns to establish a monastery of Poor Clares of the Primitive Observance from San Damiano in Assisi. After the reluctance on the part of many bishops to accept them, due to their reliance upon donations for their maintenance, a community was finally established in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1878.[15]
Currently there are also monasteries in (among other places): Alexandria, Virginia(P.C.C);[16] Andover, Massachusetts;[17] Belleville, Illinois (P.C.C.);[18] Bordentown, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts; Brenham, Texas; Chicago, Illinois;[19] Cincinnati, Ohio;[20] Cleveland, Ohio (O.S.C., P.C.C. and P.C.P.A.); Evansville, Indiana;[21] Los Altos Hills, California; Memphis, Tennessee;[22] metropolitan Richmond, Virginia;[23] New Orleans; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;[24]Phoenix, Arizona; Rockford, Illinois (P.C.C.);[25] Roswell, New Mexico (P.C.C.);[26] Saginaw, Michigan; Spokane, Washington;[27]/ Travelers Rest, South Carolina; Washington D.C.;[28] and Wappingers Falls, New York.[29] Additionally there are monasteries in Alabama (P.C.P.A.), California, Florida, Missouri, Montana and Tennessee. Since the 1980s, the nuns of New York City have formed small satellite communities in Connecticut and New Jersey. There is one monastery of the Capuchin Observance in Denver, Colorado, founded from Mexico in 1988.[30]