Baur - New hope for progress came with the arrival of the Precious Blood Sisters [Mariannhill Sisters from S.Africa] in 1909. Well remembered is young Sr Lamberta, teacher and nurse. She instructed the catechumens one day and the next day she would climb up and down the steep mountains, to visit the sick with her medicine bag. But on Christmas day, 1910, she fell sick and died within hours for unknown reasons. An even greater tragedy befell the sisters' community with the outbreak of World War 1. A settler, eager to obtain the mission plot, accused the sisters of hiding German soldiers. Since they themselves were Germans, they were detained and were marched to Mombasa without food. Within weeks all 3 sisters died of typhus, which they had contracted on the way.https://dioceseoftanga.org/religious_fathers_sisters/sisters/cps_sisters/e_index.htmlOn 9 March 1898 three sisters started their journey from Mariannhill, South Africa to Tanzania East Africa. At the end of March they began their missionary work at Gare in Tanga Diocese. The purpose of the sisters’ coming was to support the Trappists – who had come to Gare in 1897 – in their missionary activities, particularly in educating women, girls and children.
Later that year, three more sister arrived from Mariannhill and started to work at Tanga. The beginnings on both stations were extremely difficult and the sisters suffered extreme hardships from the hot and unhealthy climate, lack of food, proper shelter and tropical diseases. In 1920 due to the effects of World War I, all German sisters had to leave East Africa and return either to South Africa or Europe. In 1925 the CPS Sisters returned to East Africa and took up their work again. Sr. Ubalda was appointed the representative of the Superior General for the East African missions (1925-1938). Under her guidance the missions expanded and developed into the East African Province, which includes Kenya and Tanzania. The Province is administered by the Provincial Superior and her Council. The provincial House is in Nairobi, Kenya.