The Sisters: Found in San Antonio

The sisters' bodies were found Sept. 22 at the Maia Luxury Resort. Korkki said his mother and brother are in Seychelles to press for answers.
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He says they travelled to San Jose for a church event but stayed behind to visit a family member. The girls never returned. It appears they were chopped to death with a sharp blade weapon, possibly a machete. The murder scene shows that sisters were also slashed in the head, which left with bits and pieces of their hair in the blood soaked ground.

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Police say they have no motive at this time and no suspects. It is not known if they were sexually assaulted — that is pending a test with the medical examiner. And it was when they were going back to their village, they were brutally attack and their bodied were found by police. Police are in the village right now trying to establish a motive. But they never imagined they would meet such a cruel and deadly fate.

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Mail will not be published required. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. He named Mother St. Madeleine superior of the new community.

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Three years later, he appointed Mother St. Pierre Cinquin as her successor, and she remained in office until her death almost twenty years later. On 31 March , Bishop C. Dubuis sent from Galveston a colony of these sisters to found a convent at San Antonio; in , he erected this new community into an independent centre, on the occasion of vesting the first postulants admitted into the San Antonio novitiate.

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Sisters Madeleine Chollet, Pierre Cinquin and Agnes Buisson came to help the people of San Antonio who were being ravaged by a severe cholera epidemic. It was just after the Civil War and San Antonio had a population of 12,; however, there were no public hospitals.

When the three Sisters arrived, they founded the institute of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. Previous to , the sisters had been solely occupied in caring for the sick, the aged, and orphans, but following the counsel of Rt.

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Pellicer, first Bishop of San Antonio, they began to engage in educational work. By the Sisters had founded St. Joseph's Infirmary in Fort Worth, Texas. They also administered seven railroad hospitals scattered throughout Texas, Missouri, Iowa, and New Mexico.

The Village at Incarnate Word is a not-for-profit corporation, established by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio in , to provide a retirement community for people of all faiths. The story of the Saint Mary's Orphan Asylum run by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word became an integral part of the story of the Galveston Hurricane of and indeed, a part of Texas history.

This hurricane was so destructive that it remains, more than a century later, not just the most destructive hurricane ever to hit the United States , but the most destructive natural disaster ever to befall the United States. More than 6, people died - one-sixth the population of Galveston, Texas. The orphanage housed at that time 93 children ages 2 to 13 and 10 sisters. The hurricane arrived quietly on September 7, The full force of the Galvestion Hurricane of would not be felt until the next day, September 8. The story of the hurricane and of what happened at the orphanage remains a central story of the hurricane itself.

On September 8, , the hurricane eventually began to erode away the sand dunes that surrounded St.

The sisters in charge decided to move the children into the girl's dormitory , as it was newer and stronger and thus potentially safer than the boy's dormitory. The sisters led the children in singing in English the old French hymn , Queen of the Waves. Eventually, the boy's dormitory failed and collapsed into the sea. When the waters started to fill the first floor of the girl's dormitory, the sisters moved the children to the second floor, and again led in singing Queen of the Waves.

The sisters put clothes line around their waists and connected themselves to six to eight children each in an attempt to save the children.


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Three of the children older teens were left loose. Finally, the girl's dormitory collapsed.