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3 unusual facts about Sarah Peter


Holy Cross Monastery and Church

With the encouragement and support of Sarah Peter, daughter of a early Governor of Ohio and a noted convert to Catholicism, the city stepped in and purchased the property from the heir.

Sarah Peter

In 1862 she volunteered as a nurse, and went with the sisters who followed General Grant's army in the south-west after the battle of Pittsburg Landing.

The foundations of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, the Sisters of Mercy, the Little Sisters of the Poor in Cincinnati, and other institutions, owed much to her generosity.



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