Alfred Moes
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Mother Mary Alfred Moes (1828 – December 18, 1899) was instrumental in establishing the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota and in founding St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.
Born Maria Catherine Moes in Luxembourg, she emigrated to Illinois and later settled in Minnesota. Following the 1883 Rochester Tornado, which devastated the young city of Rochester, she proposed to Doctor William Worrall Mayo that her group of nuns would operate a hospital for the injured and sick if he and his sons would serve as its physicians. Today that hospital is a part of the Mayo Clinic.
[edit] References
- Kraman, OSF, Carlan. Odyssey in Faith: The Story of Mother Alfred Moes. Rochester, MN: Sisters of St. Francis, 1990.
