DARIEN—In 1888, 18-year-old Maria Elizabeth Hesselblad came to the United States from Sweden to support her struggling family and settled in New York City, where she worked as a nurse, caring for the poor and sick at Roosevelt Hospital. She was impressed by the faith of the Irish Catholics who were her patients and became friends with two Catholic sisters, who took her to Europe. During a Corpus Christi procession in Brussels, as the m…
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