Event: Sisters of St. Mary Established Brief Description: In 1872 Mother Mary Odilia Berger, a forty-nine-year-old Bavarian nun, emigrated to America with five other nuns and formed a new order, the Sisters of St. Mary. They arrived in St. Louis just as smallpox was spreading through the city. The Sisters of St. Mary became the city´s primary providers of public health care. For a time, people referred to them as the "smallpox sisters." Year: 1872 Decade: 1870 - 1879 Beginning Date: 1872 |
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