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Erected in 1885 and operated by the Sisters of St. Francis, [2] St. Joseph's later became a Medical Center with 1,212 beds. [3] In 1997 the hospital merged with Baptist Memorial Health Care. [4] The property and buildings were then sold to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. [3]
The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis was founded in Peoria on July 16, 1877, by Mother M. Frances Krasse, O.S.F., and Bishop John Lancaster Spalding. [5] Property was obtained in 1877 for St. Francis Hospital, which is the present day site of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center.
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In 1893, the Sisters purchased a new building and began expanding the services of St. Francis Hospital. In 1947, the Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother was opened on the hospital grounds. [6] The hospital has expanded several times and now surrounds the chapel. St. Francis Hospital was renamed St. Francis Regional Medical Center in 1982.
In 1874, they founded the Sisters of St. Mary under the Rule of the Franciscan Third Order Regular. In 1877 the congregation opened St. Mary's Infirmary in St. Louis. In 1878 Berger sent a third of the members of the congregation to Canton, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, during a Yellow fever outbreak in those cities. Five young sisters ...
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