FULFILMENT OF A VOW
FAMOUS HOSPITAL BUILT. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in London, was built as the result of a vow. Eight hundred years ago a courier named Rahere started on a pilgrimage to Rome. Becoming ill during the journey, he avowed to St. Bartholomew that if he were spared he would. build a hospital for the poor. He recovered, and in due course the hospital was . built, partly by his own hands. “Bart’s”; by the way, is the only hospital within the City of London, and the Lord Mayor and Aidermen of the City, while holding office, automatically become governors.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1933, Page 8
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