Sister Blandina – friend of Billy the Kid

Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

Billy the Kid, a notorious bank and stage-coach robber of the Wild West, met his match in the most unlikely of people when he met Sister of Charity Blandina Segale.

According to legend, and to Sister Blandina’s journal and letters, one of Billy the Kid’s gang had been shot and was on the brink of death when the doctors of Trinidad, Colorado, refused to treat him. Sister Blandina decided to take him in and cared for him for three months, nursing him back to health. Continue reading

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