Between 4th - 11th May 2025, a number of Medical Mission Sisters and Associates from across the world will travel to Steeg in the Austrian Tyrol where the Society’s founder, Anna Dengel, was born. 

Easter cards, April 1973

For the year 1973, we are viewing some of the handmade Easter cards sent by Medical Mission Sisters, serving at Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.  During the time of the hospital’s handover to local administration, the cards were sent to the Society’s founder, Anna Dengel, in April 1973. 

The Medical Missionary magazine in the winter of 1969 is dedicated to being young and involved.  The introduction to it states: 

Sister Rosemary Ryan has sent this recollection of a concert performed by the Medical Mission Sisters at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1967.  It shows how singing is a part of healing.  

She writes:

The Medical Missionary magazine in its 1970 Fall edition relates how the Ernest Oppenheimer Hospital in Welkom, South Africa, 'challenged the creativity of Medical Mission Sisters', when they agreed to staff it for the Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa in 1951.

According to the Medical Missionary magazine, September - October 1959: 

“June 11, 1959, was a Red Letter Day for the Medical Mission Sisters. On that day, our Holy Father, Pope John XXIII, granted the Decretum Laudis to the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries. As the Society is the first ex-professo Medical Mission Sisterhood, it may be of interest to trace the steps from its erection as a PIOUS SOCIETY to Papal Approval …”

THE RAWALPINDI MEDICAL MISSON TO INDIA

Twenty Fifth Anniversary, 1937

The Society’s founder, Dr Anna Dengel, shows us in her own words how to use a jubilee year creatively

In 1937, in the Medical Missionary magazine, Anna Dengel wrote:

The Medical Missionary magazine in 1964 describes the Feast of Epiphany as follows:

At Christmas, when cribs abound around the world, we share with you some of those most special to the Medical Mission Sisters.

Let’s go back to the year 1948, when this article appeared in the Medical Missionary magazine: 

The 1953 edition of the Medical Missionary magazine has images and text which show how Advent was lived in the community in North America that year.

As ever, it was a time of making Advent wreaths and filling every nook and cranny with greenery, a time of joyful anticipation and meditation, including on the prophecy of Isaiah, and a time when all were called, “Prepare ye His ways."

The wreath, which held a place of honour during the four weeks of Advent, symbolised the 4,000 years of expectation.