The director of the health resort in Lipik requested the Provincial Leadership that the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross should take over the care of the patients in this facility. So three sisters arrived in Lipik on 1 June 1959. The work at the health resort was hard. One nurse looked after 70 serious patients. After some time, their accommodation in the hospital building was called into question, so they moved to a nurses’ house in 1976. The sphere of activity in the health resort was cancelled in 1987. The sisters continued their work in the pastoral care of the parish.
In September 1991, during the war in their homeland, the sisters were forced to leave the town. The house was looted, destroyed and set on fire by the Serbian conquerors. After the war in 1994, the house was rebuilt and the sisters returned to Lipik.
Today, the sisters are involved in pastoral care in the parish of St Francis in Lipik, in the parish of St Juraj in Čaglić and in the Dobrovac branch.
They visit the sick, pray rosary with them in the chapel of the health resort and organise mass for the sick.
The house is intended for treatment at the health resort and for holidays, both for our sisters and for sisters from other communities.
