As our blog has shared in recent weeks, the Sisters of Providence answered a call to duty during the Civil War by serving in military hospitals in Indianapolis and Vincennes, Ind. For a list of all these women, click here.
Other Sisters of Providence who served during war are:
- Sister Francis de Lourdes Reilly (RIP): nurse in World War I (before entering the Congregation);
- Sister Ruth Sondhaus (RIP): served in World War II in Naval Intelligence (before entering the Congregation)
- Sister Catherine Hartman (RIP): served as a lieutenant in the Women’s Reserve in the U.S. Marine Corps (before entering the Congregation);
- Sister Josephine Bryan: served as a registered nurse in the Vietnam War as a volunteer with Catholic Relief Services;
- Sister Patricia “Pat” Linehan: served in the Navy Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War on the U.S. Naval hospital ship, Repose (before entering the Congregation); and
- Sister Merry Marcotte (RIP): served as a volunteer Red Cross medical social worker during the Vietnam War.
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