The orphanage at St. Francis closed in 1936. By 1935, the number of orphans being cared for in all orphanages was decreasing yearly, largely because of the provision in the Social Security Act for dependent children in the case of the “absence, incapacity,......
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Clear Night, Bright Star by Sister Jane Frances Omlor is now published and is available to the public.
The celebration began with an opening song and prayer in the St. Francis Convent Chapel followed by a procession out to the cemetery. Following a trumpet call, there was a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....