With his wife, Pernelle, he created low-income housing for the poor, founded free hospitals and endowed churches and cemeteries.
The Counter-Reformation brought a new impulse for caring for the sick in the Roman Catholic Church, insofar as special orders for nursing service were founded e.g., the Daughters of Charity, a non-enclosed congregation of women devoted to the care of the sick and the poor, founded by Vincent de Paul, a notable charismatic healer.
"We wanted to do neighborhood-based clinics because we thought there was a need to have a place where people could come and have easy access to legal advice after they lost their jobs," said Lynn Kelly, executive director of MFY, which descended from Mobilization for Youth, a neighborhood program for the poor founded in the 1960's.
In fact, Chmielowski eventually changed his name to Brother Albert, and devoted his life to the poor, founding the Albertine Brothers.
Imagine my horror as I opened it to find our poor founding visionary -- initiator of hospitals, libraries, colleges, fire squads and unions; inventor of lightning rods and swim fins; cosmologist, epidemiologist, psychologist, philosopher, postmaster, printer -- reduced to a few out-of-context quotations.
In 1796, for example, the Society for Bettering the Conditions of the Poor was founded.
Despite the corrupt court life, Elizabeth maintained her devout habits, helped the sick and the poor, and founded charitable establishments.
For years, the Christian Brothers, a teaching order dedicated to educating the poor that founded the school, had bridged the gap, providing $100,000 to $300,000 a year.
Mr. Asahara, who was born half-blind and into a large, poor family, founded Aum in 1987 by espousing a mixture of Buddhist and Hindu thought.
As an example, he cited Dorothy Day, a pacifist and advocate of the poor who founded the Catholic Worker movement in the 1930's.
The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor was founded in 1843, and for 96 years it arranged transfer payments from society's winners to its losers.
