CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic Blessing & Ribbon Cutting

CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic Blessing and Ribbon Cutting was held in New Boston, TX on September 5, 2024. This great ceremony included visiting officers & Staff of CHRISTUS Health.

It all started in 1866, when Father Dubuis was Bishop of Texas and facing a deadly cholera epidemic. Unable to persuade American religious congregations with trained nurses to establish a presence in Galveston, Bishop Dubuis looked to France. He wrote to his friend, Mother Angelique Hiver, Superior of the Order of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament in Lyon, France requesting her support.

Three volunteer religious nurses serving in the Hospital of the Antiquaille in Lyon answered Dubuis’ call to serve. These women would become the first Sisters of the new Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. With only a week’s preparation, Mother Blandine Mathelin (first Superior of the congregation), Sister Joseph Roussin and Sister Ange Escude set sail for Texas and opened the Charity Infirmary (renamed St. Mary’s Infirmary) in Galveston, the first Catholic and first private hospital in Texas.

Three additional sisters traveled to San Antonio and started another infirmary years later. Thus, in Galveston and San Antonio, the Sisters established two independent congregations. In 1928, the Galveston congregation moved to Houston. The two religious congregations continued to grow and formed large, independent health systems serving the needs of communities in five states. In 1999, to strengthen their ability to reach out to those in need and provide the best health care, the two systems merged to form CHRISTUS Health. 

In 1937, 16 Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth arrived in Tyler, Texas to open the new Mother Frances Hospital. The hospital was scheduled to open on March 19. Unfortunately, tragedy struck on March 18 and Mother Frances Hospital was called to open its doors early to care for the victims of the catastrophic New London school explosion in nearby Rusk County. The Sisters rose to the challenge and permanently established their place in Tyler history. In 2016, the hospital system, now named Trinity Mother Frances joined the unified health care ministries of CHRISTUS Health and the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth became the third sponsoring congregation.

Today, CHRISTUS Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit system made up of more than 600 centers, including community hospitals, urgent care centers, health insurance companies and physician clinics. We are a community of 45,000 Associates, with over 15,000 physicians providing individualized care—and all focused on our charitable mission. Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Houston and San Antonio and the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, our mission is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ to every individual we serve.

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