Mary Odilia Berger (1823 – 1880), German-American religious leader, founded Sisters of St. Mary
The congregation, through SSM Health Care, today operates in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
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Once in Paris, Berger took part in the charitable works of the Abbé Peter-Victor Braun, who chose her in 1866 to lead the new religious congregation of Sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart he founded to give continuity to their work.
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In 1878 a third of the members of the congregation were sent by Mother Odilia to Canton, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee during a Yellow Fever outbreak.
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Thus he established three of these volunteers as a religious congregation under the leadership of a Bavarian woman, Sister Anna Katharina Berger, who had come to Paris already a member of a community of Franciscan Sisters founded by the Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini in Pirmasens.
Anna Katherine (later Mother Mary Odilia) Berger was born in Regen, Bavaria.