Abstract
In 1865, a delegation of Catholic Sisters of St. Francis from Buffalo, New York, arrived in the South Side slopes of Pittsburgh. These were not nuns dedicated to lives of quiet contemplation in cloisters. Far from it: the Sisters of St. Francis had two energetic vocations, teaching and nursing, and over 150 years, they built an architectural, educational, and medical legacy in Western Pennsylvania.
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