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  • Nonetheless, I have been in the same situation at a conference for my career-field, which is all women (Deaconesses).

    That’s Me In The Corner | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • They were Deaconesses – and for the appropriate reference to that term, see old-line Episcopalian hospital names.

    Milwaukee News Item #1: Married Catholic Priests « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2008

  • It is hard to believe that the God-fearing Methodists who founded the Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries nearly 120 years ago would have wanted to limit their concern to the wealthy neighborhoods surrounding what has since become Sibley Hospital, to the exclusion of other citizens of the District.

    Connect these dots to form a hospital chain 2010

  • Nonetheless, I have been in the same situation at a conference for my career-field, which is all women Deaconesses.

    That's Me In The Corner 2008

  • In 1846, a friend sent Florence the yearbook of the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth in Germany.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • In 1846, a friend sent Florence the yearbook of the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth in Germany.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • In 1846, a friend sent Florence the yearbook of the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth in Germany.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • In 1846, a friend sent Florence the yearbook of the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth in Germany.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • _Deaconesses_ [Rom. 16: 1] are consecrated to the work of love and mercy, and minister to the sick, the needy, the neglected, the ignorant, the fallen, and the friendless.

    An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism Joseph Stump

  • After a time she went into the Protestant Deaconesses Institution at Kaiserswerth, that she might be trained as a nurse.

    Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

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