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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 208, 30 March 1877, Page 7

A Sister died recently in Bensheini, Germany, who had the almost exclusive pare of the typhus ward in the military hospital during the campaign of 1870-71, and has been ever since that time celebrated for her self-devotion in nursing other typhus patients during the two or three epidemics in this district. Her coffin was borne to the cemetery by twelve veteran soldiers, ainoug whom were several Protestants and Jews, who outrivalled the Catholics in their veneration of the deceased. The municipal authorities not only gave a special place for the interment of the Sisters, but have also undertaken to erect a suitable monument at their own expense. The Sisters visit and attend indiscriminately all classes and denominations, nursing in their own houses even Protestants and Jews. The Catholics form a minority of the population, but the love for the nuns is universal, and never has the slightest charge of any kirnl been brought against thorn,