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In Paris she co-founded the [[Sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart]] in 1866 with the [[Abbé]] [[Peter-Victor Braun]], but had to flee Paris when the city was besieged during the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. Berger spent several years in [[Elberfeld]] in the [[Rhineland]], where she tried to start a new community with the same goals. Frustrated by the government's policy of ''[[Kulturkampf]]'', she and four of her companions emigrated to St. Louis in 1872. |
In Paris she co-founded the [[Sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart]] in 1866 with the [[Abbé]] [[Peter-Victor Braun]], but had to flee Paris when the city was besieged during the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. Berger spent several years in [[Elberfeld]] in the [[Rhineland]], where she tried to start a new community with the same goals. Frustrated by the government's policy of ''[[Kulturkampf]]'', she and four of her companions emigrated to St. Louis in 1872. |
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In 1874 they founded the Sisters of St. Mary under the Rule of the [[Third Order of St. Francis#Third Order Regular|Franciscan Third Order Regular]]. In 1877 the congregation borrowed what was then the enormous sum of $16,000 in order to open St. Mary's Infirmary in St. Louis.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} In 1878 Berger sent a third of the members of the congregation to [[Canton, Mississippi]], and [[Memphis, Tennessee]], during a [[Yellow fever]] outbreak in those cities. Five young sisters were to die from the illness.<ref name=":0"/ |
In 1874 they founded the Sisters of St. Mary under the Rule of the [[Third Order of St. Francis#Third Order Regular|Franciscan Third Order Regular]]. In 1877 the congregation borrowed what was then the enormous sum of $16,000 in order to open St. Mary's Infirmary in St. Louis.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} In 1878 Berger sent a third of the members of the congregation to [[Canton, Mississippi]], and [[Memphis, Tennessee]], during a [[Yellow fever]] outbreak in those cities. Five young sisters were to die from the illness.<ref name=":0"/> |
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In 1912, at the request of several Madison physicians and local clergy, eight Sisters of Mary arrived from St. Louis, established a "Sisters' Hospital" for the city of Madison. St. Mary's Hospital opened its doors and its 70 beds on September 22, 1912.<ref>[http://www.ssmhealthcareers.com/locations/wi-st-marys-madison "SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison", SSM Health Careers]</ref> |
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Prior to 1946, there were few opportunities for women of color to obtain professional training in health care. That year St. Mary's Infirmary School of Nursing in St. Louis accepted qualified candidates from across the country.<ref>[http://www.globalsistersreport.org/blog/gsr-today/equality/letter-editor-franciscan-sisters-mary-provided-opportunities-all-women-51561 Fahey, Connie. "Franciscan Sisters of Mary provided opportunities for all women", ''Global Sisters Report'', January 24, 2018]</ref> |
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==Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville== |
==Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville== |
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Revision as of 17:24, 30 July 2019
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of religious sisters based in St. Louis, Missouri, which was formed in 1987 from the merger of two related congregations. The congregations founded hospitals throughout the Midwestern United States, which the current congregation still operates.
Sisters of Mary
The Sisters of St. Mary (S.S.M.) was a former Roman Catholic religious congregation for women based in St. Louis, Missouri that founded hospitals throughout the Midwest. [1]
The congregation has its origins in St. Louis in the work of Mother Mary Odilia Berger who had emigrated from Germany in 1872 with four companions. The original congregation was the Sisters of St. Mary (S.S.M.). They received their name because their residence shared a door with St. Mary of Victories Church in downtown St. Louis.
Anna Katherine (later Mother Odilia) Berger was born in Regen in the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1858 she joined the Poor Franciscan Sisters of Pirmasens, which later became the Poor Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family of Pirmasens, Germany, founded by the Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini and was sent to beg in Paris.
In Paris she co-founded the Sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart in 1866 with the Abbé Peter-Victor Braun, but had to flee Paris when the city was besieged during the Franco-Prussian War. Berger spent several years in Elberfeld in the Rhineland, where she tried to start a new community with the same goals. Frustrated by the government's policy of Kulturkampf, she and four of her companions emigrated to St. Louis in 1872.
In 1874 they founded the Sisters of St. Mary under the Rule of the Franciscan Third Order Regular. In 1877 the congregation borrowed what was then the enormous sum of $16,000 in order to open St. Mary's Infirmary in St. Louis.[citation needed] In 1878 Berger sent a third of the members of the congregation to Canton, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, during a Yellow fever outbreak in those cities. Five young sisters were to die from the illness.[1]
In 1912, at the request of several Madison physicians and local clergy, eight Sisters of Mary arrived from St. Louis, established a "Sisters' Hospital" for the city of Madison. St. Mary's Hospital opened its doors and its 70 beds on September 22, 1912.[2]
Prior to 1946, there were few opportunities for women of color to obtain professional training in health care. That year St. Mary's Infirmary School of Nursing in St. Louis accepted qualified candidates from across the country.[3]
Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville
 | It has been suggested that Mary Augustine Giesen be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since July 2019. |
The Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville (postnominal initials: S.S.M.) was a Roman Catholic religious congregation for women based in Maryville, Missouri, which followed the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis. Their ministry was primarily one of medical care, to which end they founded hospitals in Missouri and Oklahoma.
The congregation was founded in 1894 when Mother Mary Augustine Giesen led six other sisters to Maryville from the St. Louis, Missouri motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Mary. They then became independent of that congregation, with Mother Augustine as the first Superior General. While the Sisters of St. Mary worked largely in the St. Louis urban area, the Sisters of St. Francis worked in more rural areas.[4]
They founded St. Francis Hospital, the only hospital in the town and one of only two hospitals in the vast Platte Purchase area of northwest Missouri north of St. Joseph, Missouri (the other hospital is in Fairfax, Missouri). In 1898, they established St. Anthony Hospital, the first hospital in the Oklahoma territory.[4]
In 1947, the order built its motherhouse, with its landmark yellow steeple, on a bluff overlooking the One Hundred and Two River. In 1963 they opened the Mount Alverno Academy for high school girls on land adjacent to the motherhouse. The high school closed in 1971.
Merger
The two congregations continued to grow in their numbers and work. With the reduced numbers of both congregations by the late 20th century, however, in May 1985 the members of both congregations voted to merge into a new one. In August 1985 the sisters came together to form the Franciscan Sisters of Mary.
Concerned Maryville residents seeking to preserve the landmark motherhouse tower sought various uses for it. In 1995 the Missouri Department of Corrections bought the 44-acre (180,000 m2) grounds with the motherhouse and school for the minimum security Maryville Treatment Center which began operations in 1996.
In 2010 the 80-year-old convent was vacated at St. Mary's Hospital in the Richmond Heights suburb of St. Louis, as the sisters moved to smaller quarters or a retirement home.[5][6]
Twenty hospitals and two nursing homes founded by the congregation are now operated as SSM Health Care (SSMHC) in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Leadership". Franciscan Sisters of Mary. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
- ^ "SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison", SSM Health Careers
- ^ Fahey, Connie. "Franciscan Sisters of Mary provided opportunities for all women", Global Sisters Report, January 24, 2018
- ^ a b "Our History & Heritage of Healing", SSM Health
- ^ Holland, Elizabethe. "After 80 years of service, a convent at St. Mary's is being vacated". stltoday.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
- ^ Moffitt, Kelly. "The ecological justice work of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary at West Lake landfill — and beyond". Retrieved 2018-06-15.