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History: The sisters began to staff the new parish schools to be established. A year later a boarding school was also realized; this was, after all, the main work of the Society, and the main source of income. The boarding school did not flourish, possibly due to its eccentric location and competition from the boarding school in Nijmegen, founded in 1903 (which moved to Arnhem in 1913). In 1918 it was decided that one Dutch boarding school (apparently Blumenthal in Vaals was not labeled as Dutch) was sufficient, and that this should be the boarding school in Arnhem. The Bennebroekse boarding school was therefore united with the boarding school in Arnhem; the village school passed into the hands of the Franciscans of St. Lucia
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