Word: gibsonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governeur P. Hance there was plenty of Christian work to do. Last week in Gibsonia, Pa. some 2,000 Episcopal churchmen and laymen, including Bishop Austin Pardue of Pittsburgh and Canon Bernard Iddings Bell of Chicago, gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of St. Barnabas' Free Home which during the last year fed, advised and housed 151 young boys and old men who were poor...
...Brother Hance's reputation grew, he moved into successively larger quarters. The present St. Barnabas' Free Home at Gibsonia is an ivy-grown stone house of about 50 rooms in the midst of 147 acres, on which the home's milk and meat is raised. Another house at North East, Pa. has 37 patients. St. Barnabas' Brotherhood, founded as a religious order in 1913, now numbers five cowled and cassocked brothers. "One is an engineer," Hance explained last week, "a draftsman and all that. Me, I've got no brains...
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