Sesquicentennial Corner—March

St. Francis Home grew in the number of residents after its founding in 1869.  Between 1871 and 1888, the Home (Citizens Hospital and Orphan Asylum) purchased over 400 acres of land to help support and clothe all who came and to educate the orphans.......

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Bicentennial Corner—February

The new St. Francis Home grew.  The first five years of the new Home saw the number of Sisters grow to 16 Sisters, 49 orphans from 31 families being received, a community of religous Brothers being established, and more older men and women making......

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Bicentennial Corner—January

A yearlong celebration is planned to mark the foundation of the Sisters of St. Francis and of St. Francis Home 150 years ago.  June 4, 1869, the Feast of the Sacred Heart, was the foundation date, but already in 1867, the pastor of St.......

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