(slideshow) How the Catholic Church founded the world’s oldest hospitals, a tradition that continues today

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St. Fabiola was a 5th-century Christian Roman noblewoman whose dream was to open a hospital in Jerusalem. She had to settle for Rome instead, creating Europe's first hospital.

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