Sisters of Charity
No, she was not a Dominican. She founded an order of nuns called the Sisters of Charity of which she became the mother superior.
She founded and led an order of nuns.
Mary founded an order of nuns called the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
the fear of nuns is called "monachousaphobia"
Roman Catholic AnswerIf you are referring to the Order of the Immaculate Conception, a contemplative order of Nuns of the Catholic Church, then, yes, they are most definitely Catholic. If you are referring to a host of other things commonly called "blue nuns", then, no, they're not.
In the United States Elizabeth Ann Seton is important because she founded the Catholic School System in this country and then developed an order of nuns to run them.
Elizabeth is credited with founding the Catholic School System in the United States and then founding an order of nuns, the Sisters of Charity, to run the schools.
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity.
A gathering of nuns is called a nunnery. Or a convent.
Elizabeth Seton was married had children as an Anglican, converted to Catholicism during her husband's illness in Italy. She founded a an order of Roman Catholic nuns for teaching school. Her religion is Roman Catholicism
The Ursulines are Sisters not nuns. They were founded in the sixteenth century and were the very first Order that was founded that was not composed of cloistered nuns, instead they were founded for the education of young girls so the Sisters were not to be cloistered but to be out in the community. There was Episcopal opposition to a religious order of women that was not strictly cloistered, at that time.
Priests and nuns can all be referred to as members of a religious order, and as people who have taken vows of obedience to that order.