Web - History of Mombasa Hospital - In 1897 three sisters of the Order of St. Joseph de Cluny arrived from France via Zanzibar. They were Mother Auxanne Maugee, a native of Martinique as Superior, Sister Benilda Houston from Donegal, Ireland and Sister James Hearty from Scotland. They were accompanied by Monsignor Alleheyer, Vicar Apostolic of Zanzibar who escorted them to the Governor (Mombasa was the capital of Kenya at that time) and he in turn took them to the Hospital; it was quite a formal introduction! In 1901 the three Roman Catholic Sisters handed over to lay Sisters who arrived from England on November 1st. Mother Auxanne died in France in 1902, Sisters Benilda and James went to the Seychelles