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The Sisters paved the way for future generations by serving as examples of how women can have careers and flourish professionally, personally and spiritually. Today, their initial goal of opening one hospital has grown into what is now the region’s most esteemed Catholic healthcare system, and a majority women-empowered workforce. Women make up 65 percent of their team and are the backbone of their history.

“Not only did our Sisters open hospitals, these industrious women staffed them as well, often working fourteen or more hours a day, seven days a week. They nursed patients, fed them, did the washing, cleaned the hospital, and grew vegetables and raised animals to provide food and milk especially during the Great Depression,” said Sr. Barbara Arceneaux, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady.

The team at Our Lady of the Angels remains in awe of its Sisters and of so many who set a precedent of breaking barriers, disarming inequality and shattering ceilings by simply being God’s servants first.