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Brief History of the Community in Peramiho, Part I |
The Difficult Beginnings History II History III
1901
July 1 The first four Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, Sr.
Constantia Mayr, OSB, Sr. Valeria Kuhlmann, OSB, Sr. Mechitildis
Dickhoff, OSB, and Sr. Magdalena Hessing, OSB, arrive in Peramiho and
start the difficult work of beginning a new community, St. Scholastica
and ministries.
1905
During the Maji - Maji uprising the Missionaries Benedictine Sisters of
Tutzing flee. The mission of Peramiho and other stations in the
south are destroyed. On their way from the coast to Peramiho two new
missionaries Sr. Felicitas Hiltner and Sr. Cordula Ebert are killed by
rebels
together with Bishop Cassian Spiss and two brothers on August 14.
1909
The sisters return to Peramiho. They take over
the care of the mission hospital and open a girls' school with 110
students.
1911
The government builds a leper settlement in nearby Morogoro and entrusts
the care of these patients to the sisters. The work starts with an
initial 200 leprosy patients.
1912
A canonical visitation held in Peramiho reports about the many people baptized at the mission, the great trust people put in the missionaries, the efficient care given to the patients by the sisters, and the eagerness of the children to attend school.