Sisters of The Holy Family

Motherhouse

159 Washington Boulevard
Fremont

Mother Delores (Elizabeth Armer) and Father John J. Prendergast co-founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in San Francisco in 1872.  By 1878, the Sisters of the Holy Family were officially recognized as a religious congregation.  The Motherhouse at 890 Hayes Street in San Francisco was completed in 1893 and remained the center of activities for the order until the new Motherhouse was built in Mission San Jose in 1958.

Carl Huneke, Century Stained Glass Studio, San Francisco, created the nineteen stained glass windows in the chapel in 1960-1961.  Those windows were donated by the family of Sister M. Casimir Donovan.

The two windows in the lobby, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Elizabeth, were created in 1893 by Mayer in Munich Germany for the 890 Hayes Street Motherhouse and were moved to Mission San Jose.  The remaining eight Mayer windows and two transoms are awaiting installation at St. Joseph’s Church, Mission San Jose.

The three garden windows were created in about 1922 by Los Angeles Art Glass for the convent on Beacon Ave. in Los Angeles.  They were moved from the Beacon Ave. convent to the garden at the Grattan St. convent.  They were installed in the garden arcade at Mission San Jose in 1998.