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1 OBLATES OF DIVINE LOVE
DURING THE WAR, MANY YOUNG LADIIES JOINED THE WACS, THE WAVES AND THE WAFS. WAGS MARCHED TO MUSIC OF BANDS; WAVES WATCHED THE HORIZON FOR ENEMIES; WAFS STEERED PLANES THROUGH THE CLOUDS OF THE HEAVENS - BUT THE OBLATES OF DIVINE LOVE SCUTTLED TO THE NOISE OF POTS AND PANS; WATCHED THE HEALTH OF MANY YOUNG MEN; AND THEIR HANDS STEERED THROUGH CLOUDS OF SOAP SUDS. NO GLAMOUR FOR THEM, DOING DOMESTIC WORK IN SEMINARIES.
2 MEDICAL MISSIONARIES OF MARY
AS UNPREDICTABLE AS THE IRISH, THE FOUNDING OF THIS ORDER IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS OF DRAMA - STRUGGLE, SUSPENSE AND A THRILLING CLIMAX. MARIE MARTIN, A NURSE, CONCEIVED THE IDEA OF NURSING AMONG THE PAGANS. SHE HAD COURAGE, VISION AND FAITH; AND ABOUT 25 YEARS AGO STARTED THE MEDICAL MISSIONARIES OF MARY IN AFRICA, BEFORE THE MOTHER HOUSE WAS OPENED IN IRELAND.
3 PASSIONIST NUNS
“YOU SEE HOW I AM CLOTHED IN A GARMENT OF MOURNING - THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE SORROWFUL DEATH OF MY BELOVED SON, JESUS. CLOTHE YOURSELF LIKEWISE AND START A CONGREGATION THAT WILL CONTINUALLY SORROW OVER THE PASSION AND DEATH OF MY BELOVED SON.” THESE WORDS OF OUR BLESSED MOTHER WERE SPOKEN IN A VISION, TO ST. PAUL OF THE CROSS, AND IN 1771. THE PASSIONIST NUNS WAS INSTITUTED AS A STRICTLY CLOISTERED ORDER.
4 OUR LADY OF VICTORY MISSIONARY SISTERS
THE SISTERS WHO TEACH AND TEOSE WHO CARE FOR THE SICK ARE FAMILIAR TO ALL; BUT THIS COMMUNITY, WOBKING AMONG TILE NEGLECTED AND DELINQUENT, IS LESS WELL KNOWN. IN 1917, AT VICTORY NOLL, THE ORDER OF OUR LADY OF VICTORY MISSIONARY SISTERS WAS FOUNDED. DAILY THEY GATHER THE POOR AND INSTRUCT THEM, CONDUCT CLINICS, VISIT THE SICK IN HOSPITALS, PRISONS AND HOMES FOR THE AGED.
5SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION
THIS IS A VERY OLD ORDER, DATING BACK TO THE YEAR 1378. FIVE SISTERS CAME TO NEVADA, MISSOURI, FROM SWITZERLAND IN 1893 AND STARTED ST. FRANCIS’ SCHOOL. IT IS REMARKABLE IN THAT IT CATERS TO THE POOR THEIR AIM IS TO GIVE A HOME TO THOSE MOST IN NEED. IT IS A SAYING THAT THE FUTURE OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD RESTS IN THE CHILDREN OF TODAY; AND THEY ARE SAFE WITH THE SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION.
6 SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY NAZARETH
AS FAR INTO CHILDHOOD AS HER MEMORY COULD REACE, FRANCES SIEDLISKA RECALLED WONDROUS MANIFESTATIONS. SHE HAD EVERY THING - SOCIAL POSITION, WEALTH AND LOVING PARENTS. YET ON HER FIRST COMMUNION DAY SHE RESOLVED TO GIVE UP THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD. GREAT WERE HER PARENTS’ DISAPPOINTMENT AND OPPOSITION, BUT FINALLY THEY YIELDED; AND IN 1875 FRANCES FOUNDED TUE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF NAZARETH, TEN YEARS LATER THEY CAME TO CHICAGO TO WORK AMONG THE POLISH PEOPLE.
7 MISSIONARY CANONESSES OF ST. AUGUSTINE
MAN PROPOSES AND GOD DISPOSES. HERE WE SHOW YOU HOW GOD LEADS ONE TO A TRUE CALLING. THE SCENE IS INDIA. BANNERS ARE WAVING, MUSIC PLAYING AND CANNONS BOOMING. THE VILLAGE IS OUT TO RECEIVE HER, GIVE HER THE KEYS TO THE ORPHANAGE, HER FIRST ASSIGNMENT. WHY IS SHE HERE? WELL, BACK IN BELGIUM, IN 1897, THE MISSIONARY. CANONESSES OF ST. AUGUSTINE HAD JUST BEEN FOUNDED, AND AS SUPERIOR, HAD AN IDEA ABOUT MISSIONARY WORK SHE STILL HAD THE IDEA WHEN SHE CAME TO THE U. S. IN 1919.
8 SISTERS OF ST. MARY OF THE ORDER
FOUNDED IN BAVARIA IN 1885, PART OF THIS BAND WAS IN PARIS WHEN THE WAR BROKE OUT. BEING OF GERMAN ORIGIN THEY HAD TO RETURN TO NURSE IN MILITARY HOSPITALS, AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR THE KULTURKAMAMPF CAUSED THEIR WITHDRAWAL. MOTHER ODELIA, ON APPEALING TO FORMER PATIENTS, WAS ASSURED A WELCOME; AND IN 1872 CAME TO ST. LOUIS. DURING THE YELLOW FEVER AND SMALLPOX EPIDRMCS THESE SISTERS OF ST. MARY OF THE 3RD ORDER NURSED THE SICK: AND, AS TRUE SOLDIERS OF CHRIST, MANY GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
9 POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH
THIS ORDER WAS FOUNDED IN LONDON BY CARDINAL WISLVAN, TO CARE FOR THE IRISH EXILES WHO CAME TO ENGLAND IN GREAT NUMBERS AFTER THE APPALLING FAMINE OF 1845-47. THE SPECIAL VOCATION OF THESE POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH IS TO TEND TUE AGED AND ORPHANS; HENCE, THEY CHOSE THE HOLY FAMILY AS THE PATTERN OF THEIR WORKS, AND TAKEN THE REPRESENTATION OF THE HOLY THREE AS GLORIOUS CREST AND COAT OF ARMS. THEY CAME TO CALIFORNIA IN 1924.
10 SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS
EIGHTEEN CENTURIES OF CHRISTIANITY HAVE WITNESSED THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OIL COUNTLESS ORDERS; BUT NOT UNTILL 1641 WAS ONE TO HONOR THE SACRED SYMBOL OF SALVATION WHEN AT LE MANS, FRANCE, FOUR YOUNG LADIES WERE CLOTHED IN THE HABIT OF THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS TWO YEARS LATER THEY CAME TO THE NEW WORLD AND PLANTED THE CROSS ADJACENT TO THE WORLD FAMED UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME.TEACHING IS THEIR FIELD OF LABOR.
11 SISTERS OF THE ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS
“I WAS ONCE A GIRL JUST LIKE YOU: I LOVED LIKE, YET I DID NOT WANT TO WASTE IT, AND GLEN RIDDLE OFFERED LIFE ABUNDANT. A FRANCISCAN - THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO BE." THOSE WORDS UTTERED BY THREE YOUNG LADIES BECAME A LASTING MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR FOUNDER, BISHOP NEWMAN.IN 1855 HE FORMED THIS COMMUNITY: THE SISTERS OF THE 3RD ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS. TEACHING IS THEIR FIELD OF LABOR.
12 SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE
TO COMBAT THE RAVAGES CAUSED BY THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE BISHOP OF LE MANS APPEALED FOR HELP. IN 1806 A BAND OF WOMEN MADE PUBLIC PROFESSION OF THEIR FAITH AND BECAME KNOWN AS THE SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE. LATER, IN 1640, FRANCE, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, SENT MEMBERS TO THE U. S. UNDER THE GUIDANCE OP MOTHER GUERIN THEY CAME TO ST. MARY’S HIM ON CALVARY. BASED ON THIS FOUNDATION, THE FANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF MARY WAS FOUNDED IN 1877. DURING THE BOXER REBELLION SEVEN OF THESE SISTERS WERE PUT TO DEATH. ON HEARING THE NEWS, MOTHER MARY THE FOUNDRESS CALLED THEM HER SEVEN SORROWS AND SEVEN JOYS.
14 CORPUS CHRISTI CARMELITES
THE THREE WORDS OF THIS GLORIOUS TITLE, “CORPUS CHRISTI CARMELITES,” TELLS SO MUCH ABOUT THEM. MARY ELLEKER, A CONVERT, FOUNDED THIS ORDER IN ENGLAND IN 1908.ACCORDING TO TRADITION, ELIAS THE PROPHET WAS THE FOUNDER. IT WAS ON MT. CARMEL THAT HE GATHERED THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. TO TEST THE FALSE PROPHETS OF BAAL. ELIAS PRAYED, AND FIRE CAME, CONSUMING THE SACRIFICE. BEFORE ELIAS ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN IN A FIERY CHARIOT, HE LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE CARMELITE ORDER.
13 FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF MARY
WE ARE MARY’S LITTLE ARMY; WE ARE A REGIMENT OF HER MISSIONARIES. IN MARY WE HAVE THE FIRST AND MOST PERFECT MISSIONARY,
CARRYING JESUS WITH HER EVERYWHERE, EVEN OFFERING HERSELF WITH
THE THREE WORDS OF THIS GLORIOUS TITLE, “CORPUS CHRISTI CARMELITES,” TELLS SO MUCH ABOUT THEM.
MARY ELLEKER, A CONVERT, FOUNDED THIS ORDER IN ENGLAND IN 1908.ACCORDING TO TRADITION, ELIAS
THE PROPHET WAS THE FOUNDER. IT WAS ON MT. CARMEL THAT HE GATHERED THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
TO TEST THE FALSE PROPHETS OF BAAL. ELIAS PRAYED, AND FIRE CAME, CONSUMING THE SACRIFICE.
BEFORE ELIAS ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN IN A FIERY CHARIOT, HE LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE CARMELITE ORDER.
15 POOR GLARES - COLLETNES
THE LIFE OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI WAS ONE OF LOVE. HIS CALLING UPON ALL GOD’S CREATURES TO GIVE FORTH PRAISE WAS AN OUT-POURING OF THE SONG OF HIS HEART. HIS FOLLOWERS WERE MANY; BUT ONE IN PARTICULAR, ST. GLARE, IN THE 13TH CENTURY, WAS THE FIRST AMONG THE WOMEN TO ASPIRE TO THIS LIFE OF PERFECTION. YEARS LATER ST. COLLETTE OF FRANCE REFORMED THE ORDER; AND TODAY THEY ARE KNOWN AS:POOR GLARES - COLLETINES.
32 SISTERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT AND THE INCARNATE WORD
THREE CENTURIES AGO IN FRANCE THIS DISTINCTIVE HABIT WAS REVEALED TO JEANNE DE MATEL: THE WHITE HABIT SYMBOLIZES THE ROBE OUR LORD WORE WHEN SENT FROM PILATE TO HEROD; THE CINCTURE, THE ROPES THAT BOUND HIM WHEN SCOURGED; THE RED SCAPULAR, THE CROSS; THE RED MANTLE, THE RED RAG THEY THREW AROUND HIM WHEN CROWNED WITH THORNS. THE CROWN OF THORNS AND THE HEART WITH AMOR MEUS IS PLACED OVER THE HEART OF EVERY SISTER OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT AND INCARNATE WORD. THEY CAME TO MEXICO IN 1894.
33 MISSIONARY WORKERS OF OF THE SACRED HEART
WHEN THE JAPANESE INVADED RABAUL,
IT SPELLED THE DOOM OF OUR MISSIONS. SIXTY YEARS BEFORE, THE BLOOD OF OUR MARTYRS WAS THE SEED OF THE CHURCH. HOW DIFFERENT WAS OUR INVASION: OUR WARRIORS WERE THE MISSIONARY WORKERS OF THE SACRED HEART WHO LEFT THEIR HOME IN GERMANY IN 1899. IN 1904 FIVE SISTERS, TWO FATHERS AND THREE BROTHERS WERE SLAIN BY REBELS. THEIR TRAGIC DEATH EVOKED A WAVE OF ENTHUSIASM; AND NEW RECRUITS FILLED THE GAP.
34 RELIGIOUS OF MARY REPARATRIX
ON DECEMBER 8, 1854 THE DAY THE DOGMA 0F THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION WAS PROCLAIMED, ANOTHER GREAT EVENT HAPPENED - OUR BLESSED MOTHER DEIGNED TOMANIFEST TO EMILIE HER DESIRE TO REPLACE HERSELF ON EARTH. MARY MADE REPARATION TO GOD,OFFERING CHRIST AS A VICTIM. SHE MADE REPARATION TO JESUS BY CONSOLING HIM, MAKING ATONEMENT FOR MEN. TODAY, THE RELIGIOUS OF MARY REPARATRIX ARE MAKING REPARATION THAT THE WORLD WILL B§ SAVED.
35 SISTERS Of ST. MARY OF THE PRESENTATION
MAY I PRESENT TO YOU THESE SISTERS FROM BROONS, A SMALL TOWN IN THE PICTURESQUE PROVINCE OF BRITTANY. WHOSE INHABITANTS ARE NOTED FOR THEIR TENDER LOVE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. IN 1902 A HOSTILE GOVERNMENT, AIMING AT THE DESTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, FORBADE THE SISTERS TO TEACH IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THEY WENT ABROAD, AND CANADA WAS THE FIRST TO RECEIVE THEM. IN 1903 THE CANADIAN COLONY OF SISTERS OF ST. MARY OF THE PRESENTATION ESTABLISHEDTHEMSELVES IN ILLINOIS.
36 FELICIAN SISTERS
"MIGHTY OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNSGROW." HOW TRUE OF ONE PLANTED : IN WARSAW IN 1885. ONE ACORN, MOTHER MARY ANGELA, THRIVED ON THE FOOD OF ST. FELIX'S TEACHING, AND THUS WE WATCH THE GENEOLOGICAL TREE OF THE FELICIAN SISTERS GROW. IN 1865 WITH A GOOD FOUNDATION THEY BRANCHED OUT. BY 1874 THEIR OAK SENT A BRANCH ACROSS THE WATERS TOUCHING THE SHORES OF WISCONSIN. THEIR MOTTO IS TO LIVE MORE PURELY, FALL MORE RARELY, RISE MORE PROMPTLY AND WALK MORE PRUDENTLY.
37 PASSIONIST SISTERS
WEBSTER'S DEFINITION OF THE WORD PASSIONIST IS AN EAGER OUTSTRETCHING OF MIND TOWARD SOME SPECIAL OBJECT, AN INTENSE AFFECTION OR DEVOTION. IT WAS THIS DEVOTION TO THE MEMORY OF THE PASSION OF CHRIST THAT CAUSED FATHER ROSSI TOESTABLISH IN ENGLAND, IN 1850,THESE PASSIONIST SISTERS. IN OUR BUSY WORLD WE MEDITATE ON CHRIST CRUCIFIED, BUT THESE CONSTANTLY DWELL ON HIS PASSION, HIS SUFFERING AND DEATH.
38 SISTERS OF RESURRECTION
ALL THROUGH THE AGES POLAND HAS HAD TO WORK UNDERGROUND FOR SURVIVAL. MOTHER CELINE, A POLISH WOMAN, WENT TO ROME AND LIVED A HIDDEN LIFE RETURNING TO POLAND IN 1891, SHE FOUNDED THE SISTERS OF RESURRECTION; ON ACCOUNT OF WAR AND UNREST THEY WERE OBLIGED TO LIVE A SECRET LIFE OF THE CATACOMBS.THE BLESSED SACRAMENT WAS KEPT BY SPECIAL PERMISSION IN A CRUCIFIX. TODAY THEY HAVE RISEN LIKE CHRIST TO CARRY ON THEIR APOSTOLIC WORKS.
39 DAUGHTERS OF MARY AND JOSEPH
HOLLYWOOD WITH ITS GALAXY OF STARS AND STUDIOS IS MAKING HISTORY, SOME GOOD AND SOME SENATIONAL. I AM NOT SPEAKING OP MAJOR STUDIOS, BUT OF AN UNPRETENTIOUS HOME IN BRENTWOOD, WHERE DWELL THE SISTERS OF MARY AND JOSEPH. THEIR BACKGROUND IN BELGIUM SINCE 1817, GREAT IMPORTANCE. THEIR EDUCATIONAL CENTER IN BRUSSELS IS ONE OF THE FINEST, SINCE 1929 THE SISTERS HAVE BEEN SOME OF OUR GREATEST STARS IN HOLLYWOOD.
40 LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY
ERVERY DAY, COMPANIES ARE BEING FOUNDED; SOME LARGE, SOME SMALL. ALL SEEK ONE GOAL: FINANCIAL. BUT MARY POTTER HAD A VERY DIFFERENT REASON DISTINGUISHED FOR HER SPIRITUAL WRITINGS, SHE WANTED TO PUT HER IDEAS INTO ACTION; SO, IN 1877 SHE FOUNDED THIS "LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY" (HER REASONS, SPIRITUAL), TO CARE FOR THE SICK. SINCE
1928, THIS LITTLE COMPANY UNDER MARY HAS ONE OF THE CITY'S LARGEST HOSPITALS.
41 RELIGIOUS OF THE SACRED HEART
RELIGIOUS OP FRANCE WERE PERSECUTED AND KILLED. MADELINE BARAT WAS WELL SCHOOLED IN SORROW, AS THE SHADOW OF THE SCAFFOLD HUNG OVER HER BROTHER. HER GREAT DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART TRIUMPHED; AND ON THE FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN IN 1800, SHE BECAME FOUNDRESS OF THE RELIGIOUS OF THE SACRED HEART. IN 1818 THIS SOCIETY CAME TO THE U.S. TO SPREAD THE DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART.
42 SISTERS OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH
OF OF THE BIRTH OF THE ORDER OF SISTERS OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH, IN A LITTLE LOG CABIN, IS LIKENED TO THE BIRTH OF J3SUS OF NAZARETH, IN THE STABLE AT BETHLEHEM. OUT OF A LOWLY BEGINNING IN 1812 IN THE HILLS OF KENTUCKY WITH CATHERINE SPAULDING AS SUPERIOR, CAME FORTH THIS MIGHTY ORDER. DURING THE CIVIL WAR THEY CARED FOR THE SICK AND DYING, WHETHER BLUE OR GRAY. HOSPITALS, ORPHANAGES AND SCHOOLS FLOURISH UNDER THEIR CARE.
43 SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH
ST. EVERY GIRL DREAMS ABOUT BEING A STAR; BUT CERTAIN STANDARDS AND MODELS MUST BE FOUND. FIRST - BEAUTY. WHEN GOD MADE MARY STAR OF THE SEA, HE DID A SPLENDID JOB; SHE POSSESSED BEAUTY UNPARALLELED SECOND - VOICE. MARY POSSESSED THE SWEETEST AND MOST MUSICAL OF VOICES. THIRD -CHARM. WE SEEK HER ADVICE AND FEEL IT AN HONOR TO DO IT, FOURTH - VIRTUE. THIS QUALITY RAISED MARY TO THE GREATEST STAR IN THE HEAVENLY COURT. ON EARTH YOU, TOO, CAN BE A STAR - A SISTER OF ST. JOSEPH.
44 OBLATE SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, COLOR IS ONLY SKIN DEEP. AND UNDERNEATH, WHAT DO YOU FIND? A RARE TREASURE. IN 1829 AT BALTIMORE, IN THE SAME CHAPEL WHERE ELIZABETH SETON BOUND HERSELF TO GOD, ELIZABETH LANG BECAME SUPERIOR OF THE OBLATES OF PROVIDENCE, THE FIRST Black CONGREGATION IN THE U. S. IN 1929, WHEN CELEBRATING ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WORK AMONG THEIR OWN, THIS COMPLIMENT WAS PAID THEM: ARE ONE OF BALTIMORE’S PROUDEST TREASURES."
45 NUNS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
CLOTHED IN A WHITE TUNIC, RED SCAPULAR AND WIDE CAPE SYMBOLIZING PURITY, SACRIFICE AND CHARITY, THEY GOFORTH EVERY HOUR AT THE STROKE OF A BELL TO PRAISE AND ADORE HIM. RELIGIOUS DEVOTED TO EXTERNAL WORKS RESEMBLE THE SPREADING BRANCHES OF A TREE; THESE NUNS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT ARE LIKE THE DEEPLY PENETRATING ROOTS. THE ORDER WAS FOUNDED IN ITALY IN1808 AND CAME TO AMERICA A HUNDRED YEARS LATER.
46 SISTERS OF SOCIAL SERVICE
BY THEIR DEEDS YE SHALL KNOW THEM SO, BY HER DEEDS WE TRACE THE HISTORY OF ONE WOMAN SO YOUNG, YET A REPUTATION WELL KNOWN WHEN SHE LEFT HUNGARY AND CAME TO CALIFORNIA IN 1925 TO ESTABLISH THE SISTERS OF SOCIAL SERVICE. YOU WOULD NOT PICK HER OUT AS A SISTER, BUT HER HABIT IS LIKE HER WORK, VIGOROUS AND PRACTICAL. LIKE THE DOVE, THE SYMBOL OF THEIR ORDER, THEY APPLY SOCIAL SERVICE WHERE EVER NEEDED
47 SISTERS OF DIVINE SPIRIT
OF ARE THEY SISTERS? NOT YET, BUT SOON WILL BE. HEEDING THE PLEA OP POPE PIUS XII THIS COMMUNITY IS MODERN IN ORIGIN, AIM AND METHOD, AS WELL AS IN GARB. LIKE THE MIUTE MEN V WHO RALLIED UNDER GEN. WASHINGTONRALLIED UNDER GEN. WASHINGTON TO THE SPIRIT OF ‘76, AND FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM, THESE YOUNG LADIES UNDER FATHER LAWRENCE LOVASIK. RALLIED TO THE DIVINE SPIRIT OF 1956 AND STARTED THE NEWEST ORDER, "THE SISTERS OF DIVINE SPIRIT," TO DO SOCIAL AND CATECHETICAL WORK.
48 CARMELITES OF THE 3RD ORDER, DUARTE
IT HAS 'NEVER BEEN A SECRET; THE SAINTS KNOW WELL THAT ROSES FOR CHRIST GROW BEST WHEN WATERED WITH TEARS AHD PRUNED WITH SACRIFICE. THE FIRST ROSE WAS A SMALL BAND OF EXILED NUNS FROM MEXICO. THE SECOND ROSE WAS THEIR CHERISHED DREAM OF A SANITARIUM FOR SPANISH GIRLS WITH TUBERCULOSIS. NOW, TWENTY YEARS LATER, THESE CARMELITE SISTERS OF THE 3RD ORDER HAVE A FULL BLOWN ROSE GARDEN NESTLED IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE SIERRA MADRE MOUNTAINS.
NOTE: Text Orginal scan from book 1960's
51 SISTERS OF. THE 3RD ORDER OF ST. DOMINIC
THERE IS ONLY 0KB SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, BUT IT HAS TWO LASTING MONUMENTS; STRANGE, BUT BOTH HAD THEIR BEGINNINGS IN KENTUCKY. IN 1813 MOTHER JOSEPHINE LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE SISTERS OF THE 3RD ORDER OF ST. DOMINIC. ON GEN, SHEBMAN*S SUGGESTION, PRES. GRANT CONFERRED THE HONOR t OF UNVEILING THE MONUMENT -9W €^
LINCOLN ON MOTHER JOSEPHINE AND
SISTER RACHEL, WHO HAD NURSED
THE WOUNDED UNDER THESE GREAT
GENERALS.
THUS, TWO MONUMENTS: ST. DOMIHtC,
THE SALVATION OF SOULS; AND
LINCOLN, THE SALVATION OF SLAVES.
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52 MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
AMID THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE
COURT OF PORTUGAL MY BEAUTY HAS
VON THE HEART OF KING JOHN; BUT
JEALOUSY SET EVIL TONGUES TALK-ING,
AND THE QUEEN LOCKS ME UP TO
DIE. THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
APPEARS. CLOTHED IN A WHITE HABIT
AND A MANTLE OF HEAVENLY BLUE,
WITH THE DIVINE CHILD IN HER
ARMS, 10b CONSOLES ME. THREE
"DAYS LATER AN UNSEEN HAND RELEASES
ME, AND I FLEE TO TOLEDO. FOR
FORTY YEARS I AM UNKNOWN, UNTIL
TSSUBSS^j IN W^ I BECOME THE
IN W^ I BECOME THEFOUNDRESS OF THE MISSIONARY
SISTERS OF TBB IMMAOULATB
CONCEPTION.
52 SISTERS OF OUR LADY MT CARMEL
DURING THE RECOKSTSUCTIOM I3ff
1825, ISmS WAS MUCH TO BE DONE
TO KSBP THE FAITH ALIVE IN
FRANCE.
FATHER BOUTELOU GATHERED A BAND
OP PIOUS WOMEN TOGETHER, AND
THUS WE HAVE THE SISTERS OF OUR
LADY OF MT. CABMEL. SOON
BOUTELOU WAS THREATENED WITH
DEATH AND WAS SMUGGLED OUT OF
FRANCE »
LATER, IN 1833, THE SISTERS
FOLLOWED AND SETTLED IN NEW '
ORLEANS • DURING THE CIVIL WAR,
THEY STOPPED TEACHING TO CARE
FOR .THE WOUNDED*
53 SISTERS OF LDRETTO AT FOOT OF THE CROSS
"SISTER, RECEIVE THIS VEIL. MAY
IT PROVE A GUARD OF MODESTY, A
HELMET OF SALVATION. "
THESE WORDS WERE SPOKEN TO THE
SISTERS OF LORETTO AT THE FOOT OF
THE CROSS IN A LITTLE LOG CABIN :-IN
KENTUCKY IN 1812. THEY WERE . .
THE PIONEER MISSIONARIES AMONG
THE INDIANS WHO SEEMED MORE LIKE
SPIRITS OF THE LOWER REGIONS THAN
HUMAN BEINGS/3
!.\IN 1912, WHEN MOTHEE
BRIDGET WAS DISENTERRED, HER
SKELETON WAS FOUND INTACT AND
HER HABIT WELL PRESERVED.
54 PARISH VISITORS OF MARY IMMACULATE OF MARY IMMACULATE
PARISH VISITORS OF MARY IMMACULATE OF MARY IMMACULATEBEHOLD I STAND AT YOUR DOOR AND
KNOCK. MAY I COME IN? WHO AM I?
MOTHER TERESA TALLON. NO, NOT
BEGGING FOR MONEY *• WE ACCEPT
NONE, AS OUR RESPONSIBILITIES ARE
ASSUMED BY THE PARISH IN WHICH
WE LABOR. IN 1921 UNDER THE
PATRONAGE OF PATRICK CARDINAL
HAYES, THE PARISH VISITORS OF
MARY IMMACULATE WERE FORMED.
AS HOME MISSIONARIES, OUR SIMPLE
HABIT ENABLES US TO ENTER MANY
PLACES*
55 SISTERS OF GOOD SHEPHERD
SISTERS OF GOOD SHEPHERDTHERE ASS WRITERS WHO LAUD
REHABILITATION AS A HODBRK
CONQUEST. THEY FOfiGET IT DATSS
FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME.
THE PARABLB OF THE PRODIGAL SON,
US LIKE THE GOOD
SHEPHERD FINDING THE LOST SHEEP.
IN VISITING THE WOMEN IN TSE
QUEBEC JAILS. THE PRESIDENT OF
ST» VINCENT DE PAUL'S SOCIETY^
FOUND THESE POOR SHREDS OF
HUMANITY WERE CREATURES OF MUCH
IN 1850. TBE SISTERS OF GOOD
SHEPHERD CARED FOR THEIB FIBST
SHEEP.
56 • BENEDICTINES. KANSAS
U. S. IS A GRAND COUHTRY TO LIVB
IN; AND U. S. MEANS UNCLE SAM,
LIBERTY AND .TOSTICB FOR ALL.
HE DOBS MUCH FOR HIS NIBCES AND
NEPHEWS, BUT SOMETIMES A BLAOK
SHEEP CAUSES SERIOUS TROUBLE,
AND THEN A FREE RIDE TO
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, FOR A
DEFINITE STAY. IN ANOTHER PART 1
OF LEAVENWORTH YOU FIND
ST. SCHOLASTICA*S, THE HOME OF
THESE BENEDICTINES.
NO WATCHMAN BUT YOUR GUARDIAN
ANGEL, NO STRICT LAWS BY STERN
ATTENDANTS, BUT FREEDOM AND
LOVING CARE BY THESE FOLLOWERS
OF ST. BENEDICT.
57 SISTERS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
THE CIVIL WAR ENDED, DEFEATED
SOLDIERS RETURNED TO THEIR
HOMES TO FIND THEM BUENED,
ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED, FIELDS
OVERGROWN WITH WEEDS, SLAVES
SCATTERED AND MENACING THE
PEACE, CONFEDERATE MONEY WORTH^
LESS AND FAMILIES DISPERSED.
FOR TEN YEARS THESE CONDITIONS
HAD EXISTED,(RECONSTRUCTION IN
THE SOUTH HAVING BEEN HINDERED
BY THE CARPETBAG RULE, WHEN
FRENCH MISSIONARIES CAME TO
'TO
l AND THAT IS HOW THE
SISTERS OF THE ILffluACULATE
CONCEPTION CAME TO BE
ESTABLISHED.
58 SCHOOL SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
YOU THINK OF AUSTRIA AS A LAND OF
MUSIC " OF SONG AND DANCB.
3ALZBURG, THE BIRTHPLACE OF
MOZART AND OPERA; VIENNA, THE
HOME OF THE STRAUSSES AND THE
WALTZ.
BUT I AM THINKING OF ONE WHOSE
VOICE WAS NOT HEARD IN OPERA,
AND WHOSE FEET DID NOT DANCE THE
"BLUE DAKUBE," BUT WHOSE MIND
WAS CONCERNED WITH THE SPIRITUAL
CARING OF POOR CHILDREN. IN 1723
TERESA TRINBAGHER BECAME MOTHER
HYACINTHA OF THE SCHOOL SISTERS
OF ST. FRANCIS; BUT NOT UNTIL
1931 DID THE! COME TO THE
UNITED STATES.
59 CARMELITES. SAN DIEGO
WHAT IS A CARMELITE?
HER LIFE IS SOLITARY; DEDICATED
TO PRAYER, CONTEMPLATION AND
PENANCE IN ATONEMENT FOR SIN.
SHE FINDS HER HAPPINESS IN BEING
ALONE WITH GOD.
PRAYER IS HER NOURISHMENT, AND
SILENCE HER STRENGTH.
SHE IS OUR MEDIATOR, OBTAINING
FROM GOD WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR
OUR GOOD.
IN THIS AGE OF MATERIALISM,
UNBELIEF AND ACTIVITY, MAY WE
HAVE MORE CARMELITES.
60 SISTERS OF PENANCE OF THE 3RD ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS
UNDERNEATH THE ALPINE MOON - IF
YOU LISTEN, YOU WILL HEAR MUSIC
BEAUTIFUL AND PLEASING TO THE
EAR, AND APPROPRIATE FOR THE
TIME AND PLACE. IT COULD BE A
SWISS PEASANT YODELING AS HE
TENDS HIS CATTLE ON A MOUNTAIN
SIDE; OR A GROUP OF CLOISTERED
NUNS CHANTING THEIR OFFICE IN
THEIR CHAPEL.
TODAY, THE SISTERS OF PENANCE
OF THE 3RD ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS
ARE HEARD IN TEXAS AND
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61 SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS OUR LADY OF LOURDES
IT WAS IN 1858 THAT BERNADETTE,
GATHERING WOOD AT LOURDES, SAW
A BEAUTIFUL LADY IN BLUE AND .
WHITE HOLDING A ROSARY IN HER
HANDS; FRIGHTENED, BERKADETTE
STARTED TO RUN; BUT THE LADY
SMILED AND SAID, "I AM THE
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION." FROM
THAT TIME LOURDES BECAME A
FAMOUS SHRINE. TWENTY YEARS
LATER A GROUP OF SISTERS OF
ST. FRANCIS OF OUR LADY OF
LOURDES WAS FOUNDED, AND
ESTABLISHED THE NOTED ST. MARY'S
HOSPITAL IN ROCHESTER, MIMN.
62 SISTERS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE
A PIONEER ON THE FIELD OF CHRIS-TIAN
SOCIAL LIVING AND REFORM.
RT. REV. WyS. VON KETTELER
REALIZED THE NEED OF WOEKERS
AMONG TBE SICK AND POOR. THE
TITLE CHOSEN INDICATED 3HAT HIS
SISTERS SHOULD BE PROVIDING
ANGELS FOR GOD*S LOVED ONES. IN
1851 MOTHER MARIA WAS MADE
SUPERIOR OF THE SISTERS OF
DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
> THE MAY LAWS IN
c»-~^t-*-,s JL*-^' ''^'•/•'A.
GERMANY, TO''CARRY THEIR IDEALS
AND PRINCIPLES ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC TO THIS LAND OF
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
63 BERNADINE SISTERS OF THE 3RD ORDER
THE LAST HALF OF THE 15TH
CENTURY WITNESSED THE FRANCISCAN
ORDER IN A VERY IMPORTANT PHASE
OF ITS SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT, /^. & ^ ST. JOHN CAPISTRANO ESTABLISHED
THIS ORDER IN POLAND IN 1453,
UNDER THE TITLE.OF BERNADINE
SISTERS.
SINGE THEY DATE BACK TO
MEDIEVAL TIMES, THEY WEAR A
HABIT RESBdBLING.THAT OF
ST. FRANCIS.
TO CARE FOR THE FAITH AMONG THE
POLISH PEOPLE, .THEY CAME TO
PHILADELPHIA IN 1901.
64 SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION
"THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE
DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN."
A BEAUTIFUL MOTTO! THEY KNOW
3UR LORD AND TEACH THAT KNOWLEDGE
TO OTHERS. THEY LOVE HIM AND IN
DOING SO BESTOW THEIR LOVE ON
OTHERS. THEY SERVE HIM, AND WE
BENEFIT FROM THAT SERVICE
RENDERED. CLOTHED IN A PUBPLE
HABIT SIGNIFYING PENANCE, THESE
SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION WERE
FOUNDED IN FRANCE IN 1839, WITH
MOTHER EUGENIA AS FOUNDRESS; HER
KNOWING, LOVING AND SERVING HIM
HAS STARTED THE CAUSE FOR HER
BEATIFIGATION.
65 MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
IN 1885 A GROUP OF HEALTHY
YOUNG GIRLS CAUSED QUITE A
SENSATION IN LONDON; THEY WERE
CLAD IN RED HABITS AND WERE ON
THEIR WAY TO AFRICA. THEIR EYES
FILLED WITH LOVE, WERE LOOKING
TOWARDS THAT HEATHEN CONTINENT.
KNOWN THEN AS RSD SISTERS, THEIR
FOUNDER RENAMED THEM THE
MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE
PRECIOUS BLOOD AND CLOTHED
THEM IN BLACK HABITS.
^STILL LABORING IN
THE MISSION FIELDS.
66 SISTERS OF ST. AGNES
FREQUENTLY PARENTS ASK THEIR
CHILDREN, "HOW SHALL YOU SPEND
YOUR LIFE?" GIVEN TO YOU
THROUGH THE GOODNESS OF GOD, IT
IS YOURS TO SPEND; BUT YOU
CANNOT HOARD IT. AND THE ONLY
BANK WHERE LIFE ACCUMULATES
INTEREST IS ETERNITY. INVEST IT
WHERE DIVIDENDS PAY A HUNDRED
PER CENT INTEREST.
IN 1858, AFTSB A PILGRIMAGE TO
ROME AND A PROMISE OF A
COMMUNITY IN HER HONOR, THE
SISTERS OF ST. AGNES WAS
FOUNDED IN WISCONSIN. /J?-.
68 FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART OR GRAY FRANCISCANS
THIS ORDER WAS FOUNDED IN ROME
IN 1858 FOR MISSIONARY WORK.
WHEN, AT THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL
WAR IN 186$THESE FRANCISCAN
MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE
SACRED HEART, OR GRAY FRANCIS-CANS,
GAME TO PEEKSVILLE, N. Y .,
AMERICA WAS LOOKED UPON AS A
FOREIGN MISSION FIELD.- IN 186?
THE HABIT WAS BESTOWED ON THEIR
FIRST CANDIDATE BY THE FIRST
AMERICAN CARDINAL, JOHN CARDINAL)
MCGLOSKEY. - ..^-..^ . ^
69 FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF ATONEMENT
ON DEC. 15TH, 2898. TWO YOUNG
LADUB3 T»ODGED THROUGH DEEP SNOW
•pr •JHEIR DESTINATION, AN OLD
FARMHOUSE. THE COLD RECEPTION
DID NOT MATTER TO SISTER LURANA;
CHOSEN HER, AN ANGLICAN NUN, TO
POUND THE CONGREGATION OF
FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF ATONEMENT.
AFTER ELEVEN YEARS OF STRUGGLE
AND MISSIONARY LABORS, ^N»
WERE RECEIVED INTO THE CHURCH.
TODAY THEY GO OUT INTO THE
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS TO ASSIST
THE UNFORTUNATE.
70 DAUGHTERS OF THE HOLY GHOST
A MOTHER LOOKS UPON HER DAUGHTER
WITH LOVE, AND SEEKS TO PROTECT
HER FROM THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
BUT WE HAVE ANOTHER, A SPIRITUAL
-PROTECTOR, THE HOLY GHOST.
IT WAS DURING THE REIGN OF LOUIS
XIV IN 1776 THAT THIS COMMUNITY
SOUGHT SPIRITUAL PROTECTION AND
BECAME THE DAUGHTERS OF THE
HOLY GHOST, i^Mtt*H HlPffTHI
NEARLY TWO CENTURIES LATER,
1} THEY
LEFT FRANCE AND CAME TO THE
UNITED STATES.
71 COMPANY OF MARY
MANY TIMES YOU HAVE HEARD SHE
PHRASE: "YOU ARE JUDGED BY THE
COMPANY YOU KEEP."
JEANNE DE LESTOMNAC CHOSE THE
COMPANY OF MARY AND BECAME A
RELIGIOUS UPON THE DBATB OF HER
HUSBAND, AFTER TWENTY-FOUR YEARS
OF MARRIED LIFE. IN 1608. WITS
THE HELP OF A JESUIT FATHER TO
WHOM IT HAD BEEN REVEALED DPRING
MASS THAT THE Q,UEBN OP THE
APOSTLES WANTED AN ORDER OF NUNS
SIMILAR TO THE SOCIETY OF JESUS,
v TONNE FOUNDED THE COMPANY OF
MAHY.
72 DOMIMICAN SISTERS
THE FOUNDATION OF THIS GREAT
ORDER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
13TH CENTURY WAS ONE OF OUT-STANDING
EVENTS IN THE HISTORY
OF THE CHURCH.
BORN IN 1170 AT CALAROGA, SPAIN,
ST. DOMINIC AT THE AGE OF THIRTY-SIX
ESTABLISHED THE DOMINICAN
ORDER. THE GREAT ST. CATHERINE
OF SIENA, jitUtt WAO •flAMOMM8^a?
W^, HAD BECOME A DOMINICAN IN
HAD BECOME A DOMINICAN IN1363.
3T. ROSE OF LIMA WHOSE DEVOTION
TO ST. CATHERINE IS WELL KNOWN,
FOLLOWED HER EXAMPLE AND BECAME
A DOMINICAN IN HER EARLY YOUTH.
73 BENDICTINES, CULLMAN, ALA.
LIVES 07 GRBAT MSK LEAVE BEKIMD
THBi, FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS
O? TIME; SOME PRINTS ARE DEEPER
ASD LONGER-LASTIB6 THAN OTHERS.
ACCORDING TO TRADITION, THIS
ORDER WAS FOUNDED ^ftflfiBHlW^
MeauMiiwasH9\si ST. SCHOLASTICA
ST. SCHOLASTICAACCORDING TO THE ROLES OF HER
DIED IN 543, HER BROTHER,
ST. BENEDICT, WAS IN HIS CELL
PRAYING AND HE SAW HER SOUL
ASCEND INTO HEAVEN IN TBE FORM
OF A DOVE. SINCE THEN, THESE
BENEDICTINES HAVE ADDED MORE
SAINTS AND MORE FOOTPRINTS.
74 ST GEMA GALGANI
75 Little Sisters of the poor
HERE ARE TWO WORDS OF ENDEARMENT:
."LITTLE" AND "POOR." BECAUSE THEY)
ARE LITTLE, THE MIGHTY DO NOT
HEAR OP THEM; BECAUSE THEY ARE
POOR, THE RICH DO NOT KNOW THEM.
THEY USE THEIR RIGHT HAND TO BEG
ALMS AND THEIR LEFT TO DISPENSE
THEM. IN 1839 THEY BEGAN CARING
FOR THE AGED, AND AS THEIR NUMBER
GREW THEY HAD TO BEG. THIS
ESTABLISHED THE RULE TO HOUSE,
CLOTHE AND FEED THE POOR BY ALMS.
WEARING THE COSTUME OF THE BRETON
PEASANT, THESE LITTLE SISTERS OF
FHE POOR GO FORTH BEGGING FOR
THEIR FLOCK.
76 SISTERS OF STS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS
LACK OF EDUCATION RESULTING FROM
POLITICAL OPPRESSION IN THEIR
NATIVE LAND AND POVERTY IN THIS
NEW LAND, CAUSED IMMIGRANTS IN
PENNSYLVANIA TO WORK FOR BETTER
THINGS FOR THEIR CHILDREN - THEY
WANTED TRUE AMERICANS, SO IS
1909 THE SISTERS OF STS. CYRIL
AND METHODIUS OPENED THE FIRST
SLOVAK HIGH SCHOOL IN AMERICA.
WHAT AN ODD NAME! BUT IT
VENERATES TWO BROTHERS OF NOBLE
GREEK PARENTAGE WHO GAVE UP
PROMISING CAREERS TO WORK FOR
THE SLOVAK PEOPLE.
77 FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY
WOULD YOU FOLLOW IN THE FOOT-(
;TEPS OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
AND MAKE YOUR LIFE A SONG OF
LOVE? WOULD YOU BE GOD'S TROUBADOR, SINGING DOWN THE
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF LIFE?
IN 1869 AT MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN,
THREE YOUNG LADIES DID. THEY
STARTED A NEW TEACHING ORDER
KNOWN AS THE FRANCISCAN SISTERS
OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY. LIKE ALL
PIONEER RELIGIOUS, THEY SANG
THROUGH MANY HARDSHIPS; ISU^-
OL^k v
^JBMPTODAY HAVE A STRONG FOOTHOLD
IN THE MIDDLE WEST.|
78 SCHOOL SISTERS OF NORTRE DAME
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1597, IN FRANCE,
THE BLESSED VIRGIN, DRESSED IN
A BLACK HABIT, PRESENTED THE
INFANT JESUS TO ALEX LE CLERC
AND TOLD HER TO TAKE THE CHILD /•
AND MAKE IT GROW.
ALEX DID AS SHE WAS TOLD, AND
FOUNDED THE SCHOOL SISTERS OF
NOTRE DAMS. OUR BLESSED MOTHER
DID NOT FORGET ALEX: FOR, A FEW
YEARS AGO, SHE WAS CANONIZED.
SINCE 1847 THESE FOLLOWERS,
DRESSED AS REQUESTED, HAVE
TAUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES.
79 SISTERS OF THE INFANT JESUS OR NURSING SISTERS OF THE SICK POOR
DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE NURS-ING
OF THE SICK POOR IN THEIR
HOMES - AND BY THAT I MEANj<NP -^
ALL WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY FOR
PROFESSIONAL NURSING SERVICE.
THEY NURSE THOSE PHYSICALLY OR
SPIRITUALLY ILL, REGARDLESS OF _/'
RACE, CREED, OR COLOR. ^.VISW
Wl^WB^S^PA-Y'-^ftW^^e&aTED
I
FLEEING FRANCE FROM RELIGIOUS
OPPRESSION IN 1905, THESE
SISTERS OF THE INFANT JESUS, OR
NURSING SISTERS OF THE SICK
POOR ARE ACTIVE IN THE EAST.
80 SISTERS OF THE 3RD ORDER OF ST FRANCIS OF PENANCE AND CHARITY
THE HISTORY OF A RELIGIOUS COM
UNITY HAS MUCH IN COMMON WITH THE
HISTORY OF AN INDIVIDUAL. THE
NATURE AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF ITS
ORIGIN DETERMINES ITS PERSON-ALITY^
THE AFTERMATH OF THE CIVIL WAR
LEFT MANY ORPHANS AND AGED
DEPRIVED OF THEIR RESOURCES.
THAT IS HOW IN 1869 THE SISTERS
OF THE 3RD ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS
OF PENANCE AND CHARITY STARTED
IN OHIO. ( THEIR PROSPERITY IS
NOT MEASURED BY MATERIAL GAIN, 1
BUT BY SPIRITUAL POTENTIALITIES.
82 SISTERS OF THE MOST HOLY AND IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
"THOSE WHO LEAD OTHERS DITTO JUS-TICE
SHALL SHINE AS STARS FOR ALL
ETERNITY" - THUS MEDITATED FATHER
JOACHIM. HIS DESIRE TO SPREAD
THIS WORK INSPIRED HIM TO FORM A
NEW COMMUNITY.
IN 1848 THE SISTERS OF THE MOST
HOLY AND IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
BEGAN THEIR WORK IN SPAIN.
FAB AWAY CALIFORNIA WAS IN NEED
OF SISTERS, AND THE FIRST BAND
ARRIVED IN GILROY IN 1871.
TODAY THESE SISTERS ARE VEHY
ACTIVE THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA.
83 SISTERS, ADORERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN
CANADA A YOUNG LADY WAS INSPIRED
TO CONSECRATE HERSSLF TO GOD,
AFTER ENACTING THE ROLE OF THE
MAHTYR,:^T. CATHERINE OF ALEXAN-DRIA.
EXTERIOR
MANIFESTATIONS PROVED HER
MISSION^TO WORSHIP THE PRECIOUS
BLOOD. HER GARMENTS WOULD
CHANGE MIRACULOUSLY, FROM BLACK
^ /' TO WHITE OR BRILLIANT RED. AFTER)
RECEIVING HOl? 60MMUWION, HER
MOUTH WOULD BE FILLED WITH BLOQ1J / .,^ ANDfUPON HER BODY WERE THE
WOUNDS OF THE LANCE, NAILS AND
THORNY CROWN. IN 1861 SHE
FOUNDED THE COMMUNITY OF THE
ADORERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD.
84 HOSPITAL SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
THEY CAME A MISSIONARY BAND
FROM EUROPE, SOWING SEEDS; THEY
FLUNG THEM FAR AND WIDE AND WENT
THEIR WAY. THESE SE£DS GREW;
AND TODAY AMERICA*S DAUGHTERS,
ARE GIVING UP ALL TO NURSE THE
SICK.
iiwBBBB^
THE HEARTS BEATING UNDER THESE
ROBES ARE^«|HMMWI» GLAD |»»
(KEYING THEMSELVES TO FOLLOW THE
PATH OF ST. FRANCIS.
FROM GERMANY IN 1875 THESE
HOSPITAL SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
CAME TO ILLINOIS TO CARE FOR
THE SICK, THUS SOWING SEEDS OF
FRANCISCAN CHARITY.
85 SISTERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT FOR INDIAN AND COLORED PEOPLE
OENTURIBS AGO THE INDIANS
REOISIVED THE HERITAGE OF THE
PAIOH FROM MARTYRED MISSIONARIES.
BUT APATHY AND NEGLECT WEAKENED
THEIR FAITS. THIS CONDITION
EXISTED WHEN KATHERINE DREZSL Off
PHILADJSLPHIA WENT TO ROME AND
TOLD POPE LEO XIII TBJS GREAT NEED
OF LABORERS AMONG TH2M. HE
SMILED AND SAID, "WHY NOT TOUR-SELF,
MY CHILD?" IT WAS LIKE A
VOICE FROM HEAVEN PROMPTING HER.
II ••l^,^g»J*te IN 1891, SHE
TURNED THE DREXEL MANSION INTO A
MOTHER HOUSE FOR THE SISTERS OF
THE BLESSED SACRAMENT FOR INDIAN
AND COLORED PEOPLE,
86 DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
DO YOU KNOW THE SECRET OF THEIR
HAPPINESS? IT IS THE SPIRIT OF
SACRIFICE " THERE IS SOMETHING
HEROIC ABOUT GIVING ONE«S WHOLE
LIFE TO GOD; OF SPENDING IT
ALWAYS FOR OTHERS WITHOUT COUNT-ING
THE COST. NO FEELING OF
FRUSTRATION AND USELESSNESS,
LEADING THE LIFE OF A DAUGHTER
OF CHARITY OF ST. VINCENT
DE PAUL. SHE KNOWS WHERE SHE IS
GOING; HENCE SHE IS HAPPY AND
AT PEACE WITH HERSELF. (^THE
BROAD, EASY PATH OF PLEASURE
DOES NOT ATTRACT HER.
87 SISTERS OF PRESENTATION
"AFTER THE BALL WAS OVER, AFTER
THE BREAK OF MORN . . ." -REMEMBER
HOW YOU DANCED IN THE
WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING?
jaa^eaa^eUMMBtii NANO NAGEL,
RETURNING FROM A BALL, PASSED
THE DOORS OF A CHURCH AND SAW
A CROWD OF POOR WORKMEN AND
WOMEN ENTERING. WITH A PANG OF
REMORSE SHE SAID, "THEY ARE
DOING THE ONE THING NECESSARY.
WHAT AM I DOING?" ANSWERING
HER OWN QUESTION, (SHE CAST THE
WORLD ASIDE AND,) IN 1775, • •
FOUNDED THE ORDER OF "THE
SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION,"
THUS FILLING THE NEED FOR
CHARITABLE WORKS IN IRELAND.
88 SISTERS OF THE HOLY HUMILITY OF MARY OR BLUE NUNS
TODAY YOUR CHILDREN ATTEND
SCHOOL IN MODERN BUILDINGS WITH
THE LATEST EQUIPMENT AND
TEACHERS WITH COLLEGE DEGREES.
YEARS AGO THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL
AND THE VILLAGE TEACHER WAS A
DIFFERENT PICTURE.
TO SECURE TEACHERS FOR THESE
REMOTE SCHOOLSV /-IN
FRANCE(
M^ FATHER BEGEL ESTABLISHED
FATHER BEGEL ESTABLISHEDTHE SISTERS OF THE HOLY HUMILITY!
OF MARY OR BLUE NUNS. THE
UNFRIENDLY ATTITUDE OF THE
FRENCH GOVERNMENT CAUSED THE
WHOLE COMMUNITY TO COME TO
CLEVELAND IN 1^64.
89 SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OR ANGIERS
'THE FOUNDRESS, ROSE PELLETIER,
WAS BORN DURING THE REIGN OF
TERROR. IN 1835 SHE ESTABLISHED
A CONVENT; AND THE REHABILITA-TION
OF GIRLS AND UNFORTUNATE
WOMEN WAS BEGUN. THERE ABE
THREE CLASSES: PREDELINQUENT,
DELINQUENT AND .MAGDALENES. THE
FIRST ARE YOUNG CHILDREN FROM
UNFAVORABLE HOME CONDITIONS,
.THE DELINQUENT ABE WAYWARD AND
PROBLEM GIRLS COMMITTED BY THE ,< COURTS; THE MAGDALENE3 ARE
THOSE REMAINING AS CONSECRATED
RELIGIOUS. ( IN 1940 THIS GREAT
WOMAN FOUNDRESS OF THE SISTERS
OF THE GOOD SHEPB2RD WAS CANONIZED,1 i
90 SERVANTS OF THE HOLY HEART OF MARY
HISTORY TEACHES THAT NOTHING
GREAT BEGINS WITHOUT TRIALS.
FHIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE OF THIS
ORDER.
SO MUCH POVERTY EXISTED AMONG
THE CHILDREN OF RA&MEN, STREET
VENDORS AND CLEANERS IN PARIS,
THAT IN 1860 FATHER DE LA PLACE
CALLED ON THE SERVANTS OF THE
HOLY HEART OF MARY TO CARE FOR
THESE UNFORTUNATE ONES. THE
WAR OF 1870 CAUSED THEM TO LEAVE
FRANCE. A HOMELESS GROUP, THEY
CAME TO THE U.S. IN 1889, AND
SETTLED NEAR CHICAGO.
91 THE WHITE SISTERS
92 THE WHITE SISTERS OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
HEBE IS A STUDY IN BLACK AND
WHITE, AND NO DISCRIMINATION AS
TO BACE, CBEED OB COLOR.
THEY ABE KNOWN AS THE WHITE
SISTERS, WHOSE HABIT IS LIKE THE
GABB OF MOSLEM WOMEN, AND WHO
WORK AMONG THE AFRICAN PEOPLE.
IT TAKES A WOMAN APOSTLE TO BEACH
THE MOSLEM WOMEN.
IN 1869 THE SISTERS OF OUK LADY
OF AFRICA WAS FOUNDED TO CARRY
ON THIS WORK OF MERCY.
92 MISSIONARY SERVANTS OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
PONDERING ON THE NEED OF LAYMEN
WORKING IN THE MISSION FIELDS
ANnjSii'MlirTOttMiM THAT MANY
PEOPLE RETURNED TO GOD BECAUSE
SOME FRIEND URGED THEM, CAUSED
FR. JUDGE IN 1932 TO START THE
MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE MOST
HOLY TRINITY.
FOR THEIR WORK THEY WEAR A
SIMPLE GARB: THE CINCTURE WITH
THREE TABS REMINDING OF THE
THREE VOWS, AND SEVEN GROUPS OF
BUTTONS ARRANGED IN THREE
SYMBOLIZING THE MYSTERIES OF
THE BLESSED TRINITY AND THE
SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST.
93 MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART
AS A CHILD, MOTHER CABRINI HAD A
LONGING TO BE A MISSIONARY, BUT
MANY TRIALS DELAYED HER HEART*S
DESIRE. IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1880,
IN ITALY, THAT THE ORDER FOUNDED
BY HER RECEIVED THE TITLE OF
MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED
HEART. POPE LEO XIII POINTED
OUT TO HER THAT HER MISSION FIELD)
LAY IN THE WEST; AND SHE CAME TO
AMERICA IN 1889. HER WORK . .
THROUGHOUT THE U. S. TELLS HOW
SHE SPENT HERSELF IN HER MASTER'S
WORK. HER DEVOTION TO THE
SACRED HEART HAS MADE HER OUR
GREAT AMERICAN SAINT,
94 MEDICAL MISSIONARY SISTERS
PAS ACROSS THE WATB5S DR. AGNES
MCLAREN, A SCOTCT WOMAN AND A
CONVERT, REALIZED THAT A WOMAN
DOCTOR OR A NURSE WAS THE ONLY
MISSIONARY WHO COULD REACH THE
NEEDY OF INDIA. WITH THIS IN
MIND, SHE FOUNDED THB MEDICAL
MISSIONARY SISTERS IN 1925.
THEY ARE MEDICAL AND NON-MEDICAL
MEMBERS; THE MEDICAL MUST BE
GRADUATES OF RfieC€ HK2ff& SCHOOLS
OF MEDICINE, DENTISTRY, OR NURS-ING;
OR HAVE COMPLETED A
TECHNICIAN'S COURSE. MWffTm
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95 SOCIETY OF ST. PETER CLAYER
WE HAVE A DISTINGUISHED GUEST
HERE. WHO IS SHE? COUNTESS
LEDOCHOWSKI OF POLAND. IS SHE
DRESSED IN THE LATEST FASHION?
NO, VERY PLAINLY -(^MMRMT
JbJMMI^^S SHE TELLING ABOUT
THE ROYAL COURT? NO, BUT ABOUT
THE POOR AFRICAN PEOPLE UNDER
THE BONDAGE CF PAGANISM.
IN 1894 SHE FOUNDED THE SODALITY
OF ST. PETER CLAVER, WHOSE MAIN
OBJECT IS TO HELP THE NEGRO.
THEY DO NOT SEND MISSIONARIES,
BUT GIVE FINANCIAL AID TO
SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS;
