sentences:  As their first missionary community had grown quickly, the nuns visited the village of Melrose and happily accepted the invitation with the permission of their archbishop, Peter Kenrick.On May 15, 1855, Mother Magdalen Stehlin, O.S.U., set out again for Melrose with three companions to establish a new monastery there.By the end of the summer there were 11 Ursuline nuns in the area residing with the Hennings and other generous families while the monastery was being built.