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n00(1dedBoredisiyice,ird.rt-Anniversary of St. Anthony’s to Be CelebratedFounding of Order Also To Be Observed SaturdayThe seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the congregation of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George will he observed Saturday at the Mother House. St. Anthony’s Infirmary, in Alton. The diamond anniversary of founding of the community falls in the year in which the staters are completing 20 years as head of an institution for nursing the sick and infirm in Alton.Bishop James A. Griffin of Springfield will come to Alton to officiate at Pontifical High Mass In the infirmary chapel which will open a program arranged In observance of the event. Pope Pius XII has sent his papal bless*ng to *nd the document will be read during the bishop's MaasPriests from all over the diocese will be In attendance. Bishop Griffin will be assisted at the altar by the Very Rev. J. J. Brune as assistant priest; the Rev. Father John Crosson. Alton, and the Rev. Father E. J. Douglas. Wood River, en [ deacons of honor; The Rev. J. a. is- Enright, deacon of the mass, the ith Rev. Father P. J. Smyth, subdea-ng eon; the Rev. Father M. O. Drls-• coli. Springfield, master ef cere-i- monies; the Rev. Father Paul Hebentsreit. assistant master of ed ceremonies; the Rev. Father James er; A. Suddes and the Rev. Father nis John Bretz, acolytes; the Rev ig- Father John Colavecchto and the ft- Rev. Father J. C. O’Brien, thurl-e- fiers, and the Rev. F/Lee, Jei^ey-fc. | ville, cross bearer.Origin of Sisterhood The community of St. Francis I of the Martyr St George was orig- j. inated in Germany by Holy Cross , sisters from Strahsburg, France.; who took a small mission at Thuine. Diocese of Osnabrueck, Germany, to do visiting nursing among the people of the village hr during an epidemic of typhoid in 26 *®5?.!is| Because of traveling difficulties ot the sisters in northern Germany In getting to their Mother House in France for their annual religious exerrises they founded ar» in- J dependent community/ Nov. 25,1 and the- first fokr sntsnp made their vows to fhcntle ofthe! j Third Order of St. Francis, j The community grew rapidly de-j spite difficulties faced in the first (decade when the kuiturkampf*| was popular in Germany, and later | ! they established a mission in Hol-land to have a home for the young community in caae the govern-;1 men! would take over the Mother I ^ House in Germany.J During World War I the com- -n | munity had 40 nursing sisters in * n j military hospitals In France giving !, aid to the wounded Two sisters t ,oslt; their lives in the servlet of S ^ their country.Soon after the war the commu- i nity established missions In Japan,! rlt; Sumatra and the United States. lajf Japan and Sumatra the sisters are ,«, engaged in teaching and nursing,1 (! but in the United Slates their du-! ties include only nursing. }*Their advent into the Unitc^lContinued on Page 5~ C olumn *7
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Tue, Nov 21, 1944
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