Devotion to
Service and Wellness:
When 39-year-old Mother Mary Julian and four other Catholic sisters were sent to the
Great Falls area from their Mother House Montreal in 1892, the newly-established
community was less than a decade old. Montana had been a state for only three years.
Upon their arrival that fall, Mother Mary Julian and the young sisters – all four of whom were in
their early-to-mid-twenties – were greeted by an unfinished, 30-by-60-foot, wood-framed structure
that was still being constructed in what is now the 1600 block of 3rd Avenue North.
eir first patient came to them before the infirmary had even opened.
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The Columbus Hospital School of
Nursing graduating Class of 1900.
By Holly Matkin
