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In celebrating our 150th Anniversary, we the Sisters of St. Francis of Tiffin, have given a donation in your honor, to the elderly and homeless throughout the area....
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God of time and eternity, we pray with gratitude and joy for granting us Tiffin Franciscans these 150 years to praise you with our lives and our ministry.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope;
Sister Pat Froning treated the 150th Anniversary Committee to a special treat at a recent meeting. She made cookies using the original cookie cutters that the Religious Brothers made and...
1867 - November 5, Rev. Joseph Bihn begins account for Citizens Hospital and Orphan Asylum with $5,000 paid for farm.
1867 - November 9 - First property deed is signed by...
Until 1936, orphans, along with elderly men and women, were very much part of the life at the Citizens Hospital and Orphan Asylum. The children were busy. They studied for...
Along with caring for the elderly, St. Francis Home (Citizens Hospital and Orphan Asylum) was founded to care for orphans. When the widow, Elizabeth Schaefer, moved on March 1, 1868,...
St. Francis Home grew in the number of residents after its founding in 1869. Between 1871 and 1888, the Home (Citizens Hospital and Orphan Asylum) purchased over 400 acres of...
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The new St. Francis Home grew. The first five years of the new Home saw the number of Sisters grow to 16 Sisters, 49 orphans from 31 families being received,...