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Sister Priscilla, the Last Deaconess, Still Active at 87

Referring to the friends of St. Paul, she joked “Phoebe and Lydia were in the class before me.”

Unlocking the History of the Deaconesses

The first six Episcopal deaconesses nursed wounded soldiers in Maryland during the Civil War.

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