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Marianne Cope and other Sisters of St Francis with the daughters of leper patients, at the Kakaʻako Branch Hospital, Hawaii, 1886. The Catholic Church established many of the world's modern hospitals. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. [1]
The National Museum of Catholic Art and History is a museum in Washington, D.C., focusing on Catholic art. It was formerly located in East Harlem , Manhattan, New York City. [ 1 ] It was founded by Christina Cox in 1995.
The St. Jude Catholic Hospital, which opened in 1951, was the first integrated hospital in the southeastern United States, [6] [8] and the first hospital in the region to admit all patients regardless of color or creed. [9] It is also the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King's two eldest children, Yolanda and Martin ...
The Museum of Catholic Art and History, a part of the Diocese of Columbus, [2] was founded by Kevin Lutz, a priest of the Diocese. The museum was founded in 1998 at the prompting of bishop James Griffin in honor of the Great Jubilee declared by Pope John Paul II for the year 2000, leading to the original name of the institution, the Jubilee ...
The first Spanish hospital, founded by the Catholic Visigoth bishop Masona in 580 CE at Mérida, was a xenodochium designed as an inn for travellers (mostly pilgrims to the shrine of Eulalia of Mérida) as well as a hospital for citizens and local farmers. The hospital's endowment consisted of farms to feed its patients and guests.
For more than a century, a Catholic hospital now named Saint Alphonsus Medical Center has provided care in Baker City, Oregon, a 10,000-person town less than 100 miles from the Idaho border ...
Saint Clare's Hospital is a former Catholic hospital, located in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It operated from 1934 to 2007. It operated from 1934 to 2007. History
Souvenir of Golden Jubilee, 1865 (and) Dedication of New Surgical Pavilion, 1915-(1917) St. Vincent Charity Hospital - Digitized book of the history of the hospital from 1865 to 1915. A photograph of "Right Rev. Louis Amadeus Rappe, D.D." is included.