sentences:  In 1854, the Rev.John Casper Metzler, C.Ss.R., the first pastor of the German-speaking Church of the Immaculate Conception, requested that a group of Ursulines from St. Louis, Missouri, come to his new parish in Melrose, then the southern tip of Westchester County, to teach girls.The nuns, who had arrived in St. Louis in 1848, had originally come from Ödenburg (now Sopron), in the Kingdom of Hungary, and Landshut, in the Kingdom of Bavaria.