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published an interim report in 2019, which said it was only able to establish where 64 of the children were buried and that it seemed only one was buried in the
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where they began again their mission of helping struggling workers and their families. Their numbers in
England grew, and the Sisters began to serve in Scotland and Wales, where they provided medical care in mining towns. They also opened schools where they taught the local children. They began the
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caused a group of the
Sisters to flee to England for safety. They were followed by a larger group, who brought with them Braun, who was suffering from shock due to having ministered at the battlefront. Because of her nationality, the co-founder, Mother Odilia, was forced to return to her native
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After the upheavals of the Franco-Prussian War, and the subsequent uprisings, with the establishment of peace in France by the late 1870s, some of the French
Sisters returned to their homeland. They re-established the congregation there and its work.
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of the world, both to identify and transform underlying causes of suffering and to meet their practical needs. However, the order has been involved in controversies that exploited such poverty, such as forced adoptions and "Mother and Baby" homes.
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In 2003 the three congregations stemming from Braun's work formed the Victor Braun
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so that mothers could be free to find employment to support their families. Additionally home visits were done by his volunteer ladies to the residences of the sick poor to care for them in their need.
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