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"Sister Maria del Rey of the Maryknoll Sisters tells the dramatic and exciting story of Sister Mary Mercy and her medical work under frightful post-war conditions in Korea. A doctor, she found a real vocation too as a Maryknoll Sister. The story opens in Korea in 1951, with the landing of three Sisters at Pusan, the first women civilians allowed in the country since the Korean War began the year before. Their purpose was to help medically and spiritually the thousands to suffering refugees from North Korea who were flooding that area. This book is the story of how these few Maryknoll Sisters, working with the barest essentials and often without them, became the core of a hard-working, tremendously (under the circumstances) successful team of workers from every walk of life and from many different countries. The clinic which they started in 1951 treated 100 patients a morning, but by 1954 was treating about 2,600 in a day. Originally housed by makeshift methods--old cartons, tin cans flattened for the roof--the book ends with the construction of a ndw 160-bed hospital--the largest in Korea. These pages also tell the stories of many of the Korean refugees who found their way to the c

Author

Maria del Rey, Sister

Publisher

New York, Scribner

Published

1957

Language

EN

Subjects

History, Medical, Humanities