moved to Mendota Heights, where the larger facility allowed for expanded programs and enrollment. The Mendota monastery was slated to close in mid-January 2019, with the remaining three sisters moving to a health care facility or other Visitation monastery. The school — now simply called Visitation School — remains today at the Mendota Heights campus. In 1989, the Leadership of the Second Federation of the Visitation Order in the United States of America established an urban monastic community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As part of their ministry to families they offer education sessions, such as cooking and nutrition, finance and budgeting, college preparation, etc. for neighborhood teens. The Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy was founded in 1848 as the Wheeling Female Academy in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia and in 1865 assumed its current name. While grades five through twelve were all female, Mount de Chantal's Montessori and Elementary schools were co-ed. The school ceased operations on May 31, 2008, and the nuns re-located to the Georgetown Visitation in Washington, D.C. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, before being razed on November 7, 2011. Noted Visitandines The best known saint of the Order is Margaret Mary Alacoque, who reportedly received the revelations of the Sacred Heart resulting in the First Friday Devotions and Holy Hours. On May 10, 1998, seven Visitandines of the First Monastery of Madrid, Spain, martyred during the Spanish Revolution of 1936, were beatified in Rome by Pope John Paul II. Maria Gabriela de Hinojosa Naveros (b. July 24, 1872 in Alhama, Granada) Teresa Maria Cavestany y Anduaga (b. July 30, 1888 in Puerto Real, Cadiz) Josefa Maria Barrera Izaguirre (b. May 23, 1881 in El Ferrol, La Coruna) Maria Ines Zudaire Galdeano (b. January 28, 1900 in Echavarri, Navarre) Maria Cecilia Cendoya Araquistain (b. January 10, 1910 in Azpeitia, Guipuzcoa) Maria Engracia Lecuona Aramburu (b. July 2, 1897 in Oyarzun Guipuzcoa) Maria Angela Olaizola Garagarza (b. November 12, 1893 in Azpeitia Guipuzcoa The nuns were members of the Madrid House of the Order of the Visitation. In early 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, as religious persecution intensified, most of the community moved to Oronoz, leaving a group of six nuns in the charge of Sr Maria Gabriela de Hinojosa. By July they were confined to their apartment, When a neighbour reported them to the authorities, and in November 1936 their