**Order of St. Benedict Foundress
**Buried in the Nuns Section
In 1889, five sisters from the Benedictine convent of St. Nicholas of Flue in Melchtal, Switzerland, founded St. Martin Monastery in Sturgis, South Dakota. The frontier town offered few amenities to Mother Angela Arnet and her companions, and an abandoned tavern served as their first home in Sturgis. Undaunted, within ten days of their arrival the sisters began a summer school. This was the beginning of St. Martin's Academy, which by 1916 had developed into a four-year high school, that continued in operation until 1991. During this time, the sisters also staffed many parochial schools in the diocese of Rapid City, as well as schools in Laguna Beach, California, and Casper and Riverton, Wyoming.
**Buried in the Nuns Section
In 1889, five sisters from the Benedictine convent of St. Nicholas of Flue in Melchtal, Switzerland, founded St. Martin Monastery in Sturgis, South Dakota. The frontier town offered few amenities to Mother Angela Arnet and her companions, and an abandoned tavern served as their first home in Sturgis. Undaunted, within ten days of their arrival the sisters began a summer school. This was the beginning of St. Martin's Academy, which by 1916 had developed into a four-year high school, that continued in operation until 1991. During this time, the sisters also staffed many parochial schools in the diocese of Rapid City, as well as schools in Laguna Beach, California, and Casper and Riverton, Wyoming.
**Order of St. Benedict Foundress
**Buried in the Nuns Section
In 1889, five sisters from the Benedictine convent of St. Nicholas of Flue in Melchtal, Switzerland, founded St. Martin Monastery in Sturgis, South Dakota. The frontier town offered few amenities to Mother Angela Arnet and her companions, and an abandoned tavern served as their first home in Sturgis. Undaunted, within ten days of their arrival the sisters began a summer school. This was the beginning of St. Martin's Academy, which by 1916 had developed into a four-year high school, that continued in operation until 1991. During this time, the sisters also staffed many parochial schools in the diocese of Rapid City, as well as schools in Laguna Beach, California, and Casper and Riverton, Wyoming.
**Buried in the Nuns Section
In 1889, five sisters from the Benedictine convent of St. Nicholas of Flue in Melchtal, Switzerland, founded St. Martin Monastery in Sturgis, South Dakota. The frontier town offered few amenities to Mother Angela Arnet and her companions, and an abandoned tavern served as their first home in Sturgis. Undaunted, within ten days of their arrival the sisters began a summer school. This was the beginning of St. Martin's Academy, which by 1916 had developed into a four-year high school, that continued in operation until 1991. During this time, the sisters also staffed many parochial schools in the diocese of Rapid City, as well as schools in Laguna Beach, California, and Casper and Riverton, Wyoming.
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