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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Deaconesses
		It was begun in 1833 by the Lutheran pastor Fliedner at Kaiserswerth near Düsseldorf.
		His first inspiration is said to have been derived from the Quakeress Elizabeth Fry, and though the celebrated Miss Florence Nightingale, who organized a staff of nurses in the Crimean War and who had previously been trained at Kaiserswerth, the revival at a later date attracted a good deal of attention in England.
		The main work of deaconesses is the tending of the sick and poor, instruction and district visiting, but with more subordination to parish needs than is usually compatible with the life of an Anglican sisterhood.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04651a.htm (1671 words)

	October 13: Fleidner opens deaconness home
		Theodor was one of those men who cannot see a need without trying to meet it.
		In addition to practical nursing skills, she sought to increase the spiritual devotion of the applicants who were admitted after her.
		As a historical note, Florence Nightingale was one of the women who trained at Kaiserswerth (in 1850).
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/10/daily-10-13-2003.shtml (519 words)

	Deaconesses - Catholic Encyclopedia
		His first inspiration is said to have been derived from the
		, and though the celebrated Miss Florence Nightingale, who organized a staff of nurses in the Crimean War and who had previously been trained at Kaiserswerth, the revival at a later date attracted a good deal of attention in England.
		In Germany the movement has taken such hold that the Kaiserswerth organization alone claims to number over 16,000 sisters, but it is curious that relatively to the population the institution is more popular in Catholic districts,
	www.piney.com /DeaconessCE.html (1642 words)

	Florence Nightingale: How I Got Interested (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		And I promised Lynda and other Vietnam War nurses I knew that I would write songs about them.
		In the years since then, I have written four songs about nursing, including "Lady with the Lamp." I visited Florence Nightingale's home at Embley along with her gravesite at East Wellow, her summer home Lea Hurst, the Selimiye Barrack Hospital in Turkey, and Kaiserswerth in Germany.
		I began work on a major film treatment of her life.
	www.countryjoe.com /nightingale/how.htm (302 words)

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