Was built in anticipation of the cholera that never reached Rome. Bmclaughlin9 ( talk) 18:24, 5 April 2013 (UTC) Reply I found a superior Vatican source. I'm getting more suspicious of the pandemic/1891 info. I note as well that the WP entry on the pandemic in question says the only major outbreak in Europe was in Hamburg in 1892. Americasroof ( talk) 23:01, 4 April 2013 (UTC) Reply While it might imply that it was built in 1900 it could also merely mean that the building was repurposed at that time for the pilgrims since the cholera epidemic by that time was probably over. The sentence structure is a little ambiguous. Bmclaughlin9 ( talk) 22:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC) Reply Thanks for the thorough fact checking. I see that John Baptiste de la Salle was canonized in 1900 and that would have been a big jubilee year. That's an extract from Saint Peter and the Vatican: the legacy of the popes, page 163, by Allen Duston, Roberto Zagnoli, published by Art Services International in 2003. The jubilee was marked by the canonizations of John Baptiste de. Great and enthusiastic crowds came to Rome and, to help accommodate them, Saint Martha's Hospice was built in the Vatican and took care of forty thousand pilgrims that year. But older sources that I can't quite get to say something different. I found a citation for the idea that the former building was erected in 1891 to house the sick.
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