The Byzantine Empire's School of Nisibis, founded in the 4th century, sometimes referred to as the world's first university, was a Christian center of scientific and medical learning, located in present-day Turkey.
- hospital,
- hospitality,
- host,
- hostel, and
- hotel.
- Bologna
- Paris
- Naples
- Toulouse
- Oxford
- Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (founded 1633);
- Sisters of St. Joseph (founded 1650);
- Sisters of Mercy (founded 1827);
- Little Sisters of the Poor (founded 1839);
- Sisters of Providence (founded 1843);
- Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine (founded 1851);
- Fr. Damien's colony for lepers at Molokaʻi, Hawaii (founded 1864). Statues of him are at Hawaii's Capitol and in the U.S. Capitol;
- Sisters of St. Mary (founded 1872);
- Sisters of the Little Company of Mary (founded 1877);
- Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother (founded 1883).
- Seventh Day Adventists,
- Baptists,
- Episcopalians,
- Lutherans,
- Methodists, and
- Presbyterians.
- Mayo Clinic,
- St. Vincent's,
- Baltimore Infirmary, and
- hospitals for the working classes in Buffalo, Philadelphia and Boston.
- New York's Lower East Side, 1890;
- Newark, 1901; and
- Boston, 1916.
- 98 percent Protestant,
- 1 percent Catholic,
- 1/10th of 1 percent Jewish.
- Catholic Health Initiatives-78 hospitals;
- Ascension Health-67 hospitals-Daughters of Charity, Congregation of St. Joseph, Sisters of St. Joseph;
- Trinity Health-44 hospitals, 379 Clinics, Catholic Health Ministries;
- Catholic Healthcare West-41 hospitals, Sisters of Mercy;
- Catholic Health East-34 hospitals, 9 religious congregations & Hope Ministries;
- Catholic Healthcare Partners-33 hospitals, Sisters of Mercy, Daughters of Charity;
- Providence Health & Services-26 hospitals, Sisters of Providence, Sisters of the Little Company of Mary;
- Marian Health System-25 hospitals, Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother
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Thank You Mr. Federer for this excellent recollection of the contributions made by professing Christians who established and developed these institutions of Charity.
I was personally blessed by the work of The Sisters of Charity, Mother Seton’s order. As a young man I was a foolish revolutionary like a Jacobite and had now faith. Yet my dear Mother supported the family working as a medical secretary at a Seton Hospital in Dorchester Mass. I met my first love on a bus one day we both got off at the bus stop by the hospital, she told me see worked in the hospital kitchen. Next day I applied for a job at that hospital kitchen and so began the best love story of my life. I became victim of the generation 1968 Revolution and lost my girl. Yet as I was working at that hospital I had the strangest sensation that the elderly patients, who’s rooms I was assigned clean were very kind and I had the distinct impression they were praying for my salvation. Shortly after I met an old friend who told me I was a sinner and Jesus Christ was real, later that night I prayed and immediatly came in contact with a group of serious young men doing real preaching, I moved in with them and was propelled into the Christian life. I landed in Austin Texas and meet very good Christian people who took me in, and let me grow as a born again new creation.
fast forward My daughter was born at a Seton hospital in Austin and 8 years later my son was born in a Seton hospital in Rochester N.Y. this was all coincidental as the hospital was chosen by the Doctor we hired. Both deliveries were very good experience no Trouble no dystopia, just a warm goodness. They serve the Lord Jesus.