Anonymous ID: 36136e May 1, 2019, 8:25 p.m. No.6389173   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Mother Mary Alfred Moes (October 28, 1828– December 18, 1899) was instrumental in establishing the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota and in founding St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota.

Born as Maria Catherine Moes in Remich, Luxembourg, she emigrated to Illinois, where she founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate in Joliet, and she later settled in Minnesota. Following the 1883 Rochester tornado, which devastated the young city of Rochester, she proposed to Doctor William Worrall Mayo that her group of nuns would operate a hospital for the injured and sick if he and his sons would serve as its physicians. Today that hospital is a part of the Mayo Clinic

 

https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Citation/2005/08000/Nursing_Nuns__A_history_of_caring_and_changing_the.37.aspx

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11570717