St. Rose of Viterbo Convent
Mary of the Angels Chapel | |
Interior of the chapel | |
| Location | 901 Franciscan Way, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States |
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| Coordinates | 43°48′14″N 91°14′37″W / 43.80389°N 91.24361°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1906 |
| Architect | Liebert, Eugene R. & Leibig, Adolph |
| Architectural style | Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 06000204 |
| Added to NRHP | March 29, 2006 |
St. Rose of Viterbo Convent is the motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, an American religious congregation, which is located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The convent is dedicated to Rose of Viterbo, a 13th-century Franciscan tertiary who was a noted mystic and street preacher in Italy who died while still a teenager.
The convent contains three chapels, of which one, Mary of the Angels Chapel, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places of the United States. Another, the Adoration Chapel, is the site of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, was the site of 141 years of uninterrupted practice of the Sisters from August 1, 1878 to February 2020. The sisters continue to pray in shifts between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.