St Anthony North Hospital

Railroad leaders called on the Most Rev. Joseph P. Machebeuf, Colorado's 1st bishop. He, in turn, asked the Sisters at Lafayette, Indiana, for aid. In 1884, seven nuns arrived from the newly formed American branch of the Poor Sisters of Saint Francis Seraph of Perpetual Adoration. As the Motherhouse for the Order was in Germany, the hospital team spoke German at its inception. The Sisters worked with heartfelt concern for their patients, but Sister Mary Huberta believed the Order needed its own hospital.