Whenever I describe the story of Nazareth Hospital, the subject of my new book, The Sisters of Mokama, most people ask how I learned about it. The easy answer is: it’s a family story.
In 1947, six Catholic nuns from Kentucky traveled to Mokama, India, to start a missionary hospital. The country was just emerging from the devastation of World War II, while Partition had just split colonial India into two countries. The nuns started the hospital in an empty warehouse with no running water or electricity, and with few medical supplies. Within two years, they established a working hospital, primary-health-care clinic, and nursing school.
