In Huntington Park, Nuns Provide Free Hospice Care to Cancer Patients. (On the Service of the Order of Nuns Begun by Daughter of Famous American Autho

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In the Nineteenth Century, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s daughter converted to Catholicism. After learning about a New York seamstress who died in a poorhouse without care for her cancer, “a fire was lighted in my heart, where it still burns.” After caring for people with cancer on her own, she began the order of nuns in 1900 who still carry on her work today.
see www.philly.com/philly/news/20141229_Local_Dominican_Sisters_of_Hawthorne_provide_free_hospice_care_to_cancer_patients.html

 

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