Since its beginnings in 1869 caring for displaced orphans and elderly people after the Civil War to the multi-dimensional campus and community it is today, the Sisters of St. Francis are celebrating 150 years of caring for people, the earth and one another.
“Over these......
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Alongside the education of the children of St. Francis Orphanage in school subjects, the spiritual life of the children who came was not neglected. Father Bihn had directed that the orphan children be received and educated “in the Roman Catholic faith and in......
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School was very much a part of an orphan’s life at St. Francis. One former orphan remembered the classroom for grades 1-4 was on the ground floor of the school built in 1890 on the site of the first farmhouse, and that for grades......
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150th Anniversary of the Sisters of St. Francis of Tiffin, Ohio.
Mass was celebrated at St. Joseph's Church in Tiffin on June 28, 2019.
Bishop Daniel Thomas, of the Diocese of Toledo, presided in celebrating the Holy Eucharist....
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TIFFIN — “We ask for the great blessing,” said Bishop Daniel E. Thomas last Friday, June 28, during a special Mass recognizing the 150th anniversary of the Sisters of St. Francis of Tiffin, OH. “That the Lord may continue to speak through our hearts.......
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The Sisters of St. Francis celebrated their 150th anniversary Friday morning with a 10 a.m. mass at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Tiffin.
Bishop Daniel Thomas of the Catholic Diocese of Toledo led the celebratory mass and lauded the Sisters’ legacy in his homily and......
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