Today's American Minute — Healthcare & Hospitals Pioneered Christian Charity - American Minute with Bill Federer

Healthcare & Hospitals Pioneered by Christian Charity - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 23, 2021 • Healthcare & Hospitals Pioneered Christian Charity - American Minute with Bill Federer

By 1789, there were 6,000 Sisters of Charity running 426 hospitals in France.

They also ran hospitals in countries across Europe, such as Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Silesia.

A New Testament verse inspiring the nuns was I Timothy 5:9-10:

"... a widow be taken into the number ... well reported of for good works ... if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work."