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The Antonine Sisters are members of the Maronite Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See of Rome. The history of the congregation in the United States began in 1959 when six sisters from Lebanon were sent to Cleveland to further their educations and become better acquainted with the American educational system. In 1965, the Sisters moved to North Jackson, where they had been granted a convent and a plot of land on the grounds of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon. In 1989, a new group of sisters, with Sr. Marie Madeleine Iskandar as Superior, was assigned to the United States to establish a daycare for the elderly. In January 1991, the Sisters began to offer care and service to elderly individuals in their own convent. As word of the Day Care spread, the program grew and soon needed its own building. With financial support from local American religious communities, their own community, and the Maronite faithful in the U.S., the Sisters were able to build a large new facility next door to their convent in 1996.