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Nuns from our history

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Sister Streitel (1844 - 1910), the nun who started the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother


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Sister Laurentia helps a boy.  She loved children.  She sat by their beds and prayed for them.

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The Sisters at St. Mary's Home for the Aged in 1958.  Many of these nuns are more than 70 or 80 years old.

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Sister M. Capistrana was the boss at the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing from 1941 - 1960.  In this picture she is getting an award for being a good nurse.  The award is called the 1972 "Nurse of the Year." The woman giving her the award is Doris Koch, the president of the School of Nursing Alumni Association.

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In 1997, workers began building a new hospital.  Many people came to see it.  Sister Lois Bush talks to the people.  She was the boss of Ministry Health Care, a company that helped build the hospital.