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One of the largest orders, Sisters of Mercy Tiffany 1837 Circle bracelet the Americas, utilizes sophisticated marketing techniques, including a Web site extolling the spiritual benefits of sisterhood.Sister Buckley said the Houston-based order has eschewed such approaches."We haven't done anything in marketing," she said, "but we do have a director of vocations for the United States."Additionally, she said, the order Tiffany Blue heart lock charm and bracelet efforts to promote the vocation in its African and South American ministries.It also offers information on religious vocations on its Web site, www.ccvi-vdm.org.

At present, close to 30 women are moving through the decade-long process leading to a lifelong commitment to the order.Sisters of Charity was founded in 1866 when Galveston Bishop Claude Marie Dubuis, whose diocese included the entire state, Party charm bracelet three nuns from France to provide nursing for the needy. During their first year of staffing the island city's tiny Charity Hospital, the nuns were faced with yellow fever and cholera epidemics.

In 1869, Dubuis established a convent and hospital in San Antonio, which later became an autonomous congregation.By 1999, when the Houston and San Antonio orders merged their health systems into Christus Health, the local order operated about 20 Return to Tiffany Heart Lock Cuff facilities. Among the hospitals were St. Joseph in Houston and St. Elizabeth in Beaumont.Increasingly, Sister Buckley said, the order has turned to lay experts - hospital administrators or school officials - to assume roles formerly filled by members of the order.