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7 unusual facts about Sisters of Charity


Andrew Carney

In 1863, Carney gifted Howe Mansion in South Boston, a $13,500 estate, to the Sisters of Charity for the establishment of a Catholic hospital in Boston to care for the sick and poor, irrespective of race, color or creed.

Franz Josef Ritter von Buß

He introduced the Sisters of Charity into Baden; transformed his own house into an ecclesiastical college; during the famine of the winter of 1846 he fed thousands of starving people in the Black Forest; and he organized the Catholics politically and formed them into societies.

Gardner Loulan

Gardner Loulan has also worked with the US Forest Service, Habitat for Humanity, Diane E. Watson (Member of the US House of Representatives) as well as the Sisters of Charity and Champions (an outdoor education program based in Los Angeles).

Josiah Trowbridge

In 1847, was elected the first President of the Buffalo General Hospital and was on the medical board of the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity.

Patrizius Wittman

Dr. Wittmann was also largely instrumental in the founding of a motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity and of a hospice and home for workmen under the direction of the Capuchins.

Prefecture Apostolic of Upper Kassai

Just one religious order of men was engaged in evangelization there, the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Scheut (Brussels), and a single religious order of women, the Sisters of Charity of Ghent.

William Passavant

He noted the comparable apostolic deaconesses, as well as the Sisters of Charity (a Roman Catholic order founded by St. Vincent DePaul), the Mennonite nursing deaconesses in Holland, and Elizabeth Fry's work in England.


Bethlehem College, Ashfield

Bethlehem College is a high school for girls in Bland Street Ashfield, New South Wales originally founded in 1881 by the Sisters of Charity.

Catholic Church and HIV/AIDS

Soon after, the Sisters of Charity began to admit patients suffering from the mysterious new disease at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, in Sydney's inner city, which became a world leader in HIV research.

Monastery of The Holy Spirit, Sheffield

The architect was Hadfield & Son and the building was modelled on the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity at 140 Rue du Bac in Paris.


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Bayley Seton Hospital

In 2000, Sisters of Charity turned over Bayley (along with their main Staten Island hospital) to Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, itself the Manhattan and Westchester County New York's Sisters of Charity run hospitals, to create Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers New York.

Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital

Lady Martin, widow of Sir Richard Martin, died in 1907 and bequeathed Cappagh House to the Religious Sisters of Charity "to provide a school for poor children in the neighbourhood".

Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez

She is the foundress of The Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.The actors for her cause is Hermanas de la Caridad del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús of Spain.

Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth

The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth are a Roman Catholic apostolic congregation of pontifical right, based in the Convent Station area of Morris Township, New Jersey.

Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word

As a result of this tragedy, the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word across the world sing Queen of the Waves every year, on September 8, and remember the sisters and the children that died in Galveston that fateful day.

St. Mary's Convent Matara

The Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary came to Galle, Sri Lanka in 1896 for more than 11 years, there was only one house of the SCJM in Galle.

St. Paul Sisters of Chartes

Paul Sisters of Chartes also known as the Sisters of Charity of St. Paul; these sisters who now add (of Chartres) to their title to distinguish them from another congregation of the same name, were founded at Chartres in 1704 by Monsignor Maréchaut, a theologian of the Cathedral of Chartres, assisted by Mlle de Tilly and Mlle de Tronche.