sentences:  Determined to house sick people who came to her for help, in 1939 Sister Dulce started to shelter them in abandoned houses in Salvador's 'Ilha dos Ratos' (rats' island) district.Then she would go in search of food, medicine and medical care.Later, when she and her patients were evicted from the neighborhood, she started housing them in an old fish market, but City Hall denied her the use of the space and told her to leave.