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Archive Home > 2008 > March > 23 > Of Body and Soul

Of Body and Soul

Inside the complicated, changing relationship between St. Charles and Catholicism

By Lily Raff / The Bulletin
March 23, 2008

Patients admitted to St. Charles Bend in the 1920s could confirm with one glance that they were in " as the name implied " a Catholic hospital.

The nurses were nuns. A cross hung on a wall in each room. A Catholic shrine made of lava rock was built into the hospital's brick....

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