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Nuns Across the Orange: A History of the Pioneering Anglican Community of St Michael and All Angels, Bloemfontein

Author: Michael Sparrow

Publisher: Uj Press

Released: 23 June 2023

ISBN: 9781928424628

When Sister Emma and the five women who accompanied her from England crossed the Orange River early in 1874, they exchanged the comfortable mainstream of Anglican Church life for the rigours of pioneering new works in an undeveloped country. Living conditions were primitive, travel was hard, and money was always in short supply. The newly-formed Community of St Michael and All Angels opened the first girls’ schools north of the Orange and the first hospital in the Free State. At Kimberley...

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