See Felician on Wiktionary
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"text": "Sister Hiltrude, a member of the Felician order for 40 years, has been at Lodi, one of four provinces maintained by the Felicians in the United States, for 20 years.",
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"text": "“Despite optimizing expenditures and significantly reducing the subsidy provided by the Felicians to Ladywood, we could not ignore the enrollment trend,” [M. Alfonsa] Van Overberghe wrote. […] The Felicians are offering a $500 annual scholarship to students who go on to attend other Catholic high schools in southeast Michigan.",
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"ref": "2022 December 11, Alexander Santora, “With 2 buildings slated for demolition, Felician Sisters pave a path for the future | Faith Matters”, in NJ.com, Iselin, N.J.: Advance Local Media, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2022:",
"text": "About two-thirds of the grand red-brick building that faces South Main Street and includes a beloved chapel along with the “little red house” on another part of the campus -- the first building the Felicians used when they arrived in Lodi in 1913 -- are to be taken down. […] Since religious life was very structured at the time, the sisters had ongoing adoration of the Blessed Sacrament because Felicians are a eucharistic community.",
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