Story of the Week, September 18 2010, Women in White
Hello, friends. It’s a short but sweet story this week.
The Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis enjoy telling people about some of the miracles that graced them when they first began their mission. In a little pamphlet, recently published, they share a few:
A contagious disease broke out in Peoria IL (where the original six sisters had settled) around 1885. Many ill people were brought to Mother Krasse and the sisters to care for. They ran high fevers and became delirious.
The sisters took in everyone who was brought to them. People lay on the floor in the narrow hallways after the nuns had given up their beds. The sisters worked night and day, caring for the sick.
At one point, a doctor stopped by and noticed how exhausted the nuns were, without relief or rest. “I’ll send some women from town to help you so you can all get some sleep tonight,” he told Sister Krasse. She was thrilled.
Sure enough, later that day three women arrived, dressed in white. “We came to help you care for the patients,“ one said. Needless to say, they were greeted with joy by the sisters. That night, the three helpers insisted that the sisters find places where they could rest, even on a chair or the floor in the parlor. The sisters slept soundly, from exhaustion.
The next morning, the patients were all resting quietly, and many of them no longer had a fever. Several remarked that the three women had been wonderful nurses and very kind throughout the night. But where were they? Sister Krasse and the other nuns looked for the women to thank them, but they had apparently left already.
The following day, the doctor returned to check patients, and Sister Krasse told him how helpful the visitors had been. “Thank you so much for the extra help,” she said. “I don’t know what we would have done without them.”
“Sister,” the doctor shook his head, “I never sent anyone to help you. There were so many ill people in town that I never found anyone to come.”
But helpers did come—everyone saw them. We know who they were, don’t we?
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Praise be Jesus and Mary Amen. Thank you for all the wonderful Angel stories I have read from your blog, and I love them all.I believe in angels. I talked to Adriane (my guadian angel)every day
God bless you and keep you safe from all harm.