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TimTec Compounds Libraries
Distance: 1.8 Mi1801 Camanche Ave
52732-6042 Clinton -
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52804-1998 Davenport -
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52801-1228 Davenport -
Astri My Astri Publishing
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52556 Fairfield
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The Clinton Franciscans have followed the Franciscan way since they were first called into being in 1866 by the Trappist monks of Gethsemani, Kentucky, who needed women to teach the girls of the area. Like many religious congregations, the Sisters of St. Francis, now of Clinton, Iowa, had an inauspicious beginning. Near the end of the Civil War, a young widow named Caroline Cambron Warren visited the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, to have Masses offered for her late husband who had been killed in the Battle of Perryville. While she was there, the Abbot, Benedict Berger .O.C.S.O., asked her to conduct a school for the poor girls of the region. The monks had begun a school for the local boys. She agreed and was employed immediately doing mending for the monks.