Franciscan Sisters Inspect Building Progress

Photograph description:

Superior General, Mother Gertrude, left, visits Mother Superior. The Valley's first Catholic retreat house for women will be opened in San Fernando next July by Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. Mother Mary of Jesus, O.S.F., regional superior, said construction of the mission-style retreat building is nearing completion on the grounds of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novitiate, 1519 Woodworth St., San Fernando. It is called the Poverello of Assisi Retreat and will be open to Catholic and non-Catholic women, with the first retreat tentatively scheduled for August.

George Brich, Valley Times Photo Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
Photograph dated April 24, 1961