A Life Long Nurse

Now a part of the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor, Sister Amata Galligan would use her nursing skills across the Northeast and Midwest to help all those in need. While the congregation was based out of Ossining, New York, many of the Sisters would be sent to other areas that needed them most. For Sister Amata, this meant she would eventually be sent to Detroit, Denver, and Columbus to aid the sick and respond to outbreaks. 

In the article above, Sister Amata shared a story of the time she was tending to a Scarlet Fever outbreak in Columbus, Ohio. A family twenty miles outside the city were in desperate need of her help. The mother and all six children were stricken with the disease. She rode the whole way on her bicycle to treat the family and offer any other help she could. By the time she was done tending to them it started snowing. The father of the family offered to drive her home, and even dressed in his wife's clothes when Sister Amata said she wasn't allowed to travel alone with a man. The family was extremely grateful for her kindness, and years later one of the infants she treated would track her down and donate thousands of dollars as gratitude.