In 1869, Bishop Claude Dubuis, in response to the urgent appeals of the people of San Antonio, decided to send three Incarnate Word Sisters from Galveston to open a hospital in San Antonio. People in the city were literally dying in the streets because of the outbreak of cholera.
She was kidnapped when she was nine years old; she was sold as a slave and taken to the city of El Obeid, in Sudan. Her back was a canvas where humiliation and maltreatment were engraved: more than one hundred cuts that were covered with salt and that left permanent scars and a very sad memory of the first years of her life.
Archivist Donna Guerra Publishes Information on the Westside Social Work of our Early Sisters.
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The origin of the real and tangible presence of God’s love here and now. Jean Chezard de Matel is remembered this month in a special way because she set the vision that has accompanied us on the road to build a world based on justice and peace so that we may be ‘recipients’ of God’s love and satisfy the hunger of the world.
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