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The first Catholic Church in Grand Island, St. Mary's, was a wooden structure erected in 1868. It was blown down by a windstorm before its dedication. It was replaced nine years later. [9] The first church in Kearney was St. James, dedicated in 1871. [10] In North Platte, the first Catholic church, St. Patrick, was finished in 1874. [8]
The "Sisters of Saint Francis of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary", commonly known as the Sisters of St. Francis (Clinton, Iowa), was founded in Kentucky in 1867 by Dom Benedict Berger, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey, to teach in the schools of the territory for which the abbey had the pastoral care, and approved by the Rt. Rev ...
Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, ... As of 2024, Grand Island is served by CHI Health St. Francis Hospital, with 153 beds.
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) was a national Catholic healthcare system, with headquarters in Englewood, Colorado. CHI was a nonprofit, faith-based health system formed, in 1996, through the consolidation of three Catholic health systems. It was one of the United States ' largest healthcare systems. [citation needed]
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian [c] mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.
St. Francis Hospital (Flower Hill, New York), sometimes listed as Roslyn, New York. St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers (Greater Indianapolis, Indiana) Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center (Hartford, Connecticut) Saint Francis Memorial Hospital (San Francisco, California) St. Francis Hospital (Oklahoma, see Warren Clinic shooting)
The church also holds paintings of scenes taken from the life of St. Francis Xavier. The mausoleum, on the top of which is placed the silver casket with the body of St. Francis Xavier (1696), was the gift of Cosimo III de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The mausoleum was designed by the 17th-century Florentine sculptor Giovanni Battista ...
St. Francis Medical Center (Colorado Springs), Colorado Springs, Colorado St. Francis Medical Center (Cape Girardeau) , Cape Girardeau, Missouri St. Francis Medical Center (Grand Island) , Grand Island, Nebraska