............. SI ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I •••••••• ct ......................... 1 J 'I �. � ��rl'-'�'I �.� --- J I ] (I i 1 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �10THER HOUSE AT OLPE� GERMANY. . .. . . . . . . • •••••••• la • .............• c- • I!"!S ••••••••.. � CI CI ••••••••••••••• I ••••••••• • •••••••••••••••• CHAPTER 1. The Foundress. MARY TERESA BONZEL .. , Foundress of the Con­ gregati�n of Poor Fra�nciscan Sist�rs of Perpetual AdoratIon, was born September 1�, 18;30, at Olpe, a thriving town of the Prussian province of \ V estphalia, (;enllany. Her life is replete with interest, and her labors for the relief of suffering, and for the education ancl sup­ port of poor and neglected children are full of merit. Heeding the call of Providence, she presented herself w ith t\TO companions on the 29th of September, 1859, to the then Bishop of Paderborn, the Right Reverend Conrad �\ I artin of illustrious memory, and with his approval estab­ li�hed a community for the purpose of caring for poor and neglected children. To this deserving work the zealous foundress soon added the service of the sick poor, and the education of children in general in kindergartens, schools .mrl academies. The three servants of C;od prospered in their merito­ rious task despite many obstacles, so that Bishop �Iartin, admiring their fervor and gratified by their success, on December 20th, I 860, gave them and a few pious maid­ ens who had joined them, the religious habit, and con­ stituted them, by episcopal authority, the Congregation of Poor Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. The latter designation was added to their title because, as soon as a mother-house with a chapel was established, the Sisters took up, clay and night in hourly rotation, the perpetual adoration of our Blessed I ... ord in the Most Holy Eucharist, in addition to their active employment. On August 6th, 1865, Sister 1\1. Teresa was appointed Superioress General of the little community, and, continu­ ing in this responsible office until death, governed the Congregation with such zeal, wisdom, prudence and sel£­ denial, that when she was called to her eternal reward, it numbered R�O Sisters in Cermany and 600 in the United States of America. She departed this life in the mother­ house at Olpe on the Gth clay of February 1905. �I other Teresa was a woman of the type described in Holy \Vrit: "Vvho shall find a valiant woman? Far, and ........................... a I •••• I •••• I •• I ••• I � I • I I ••••••••••••• I ••• I •• '" •• e e •••••••••••••••••• I I •• e I ••• I .. ¡ ... , •• •••• •. 1j • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • � • e 1 • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ., • • • • • • • • • • • • • • fi • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 1< from the utmost coasts is the price of her She might be macle which would result in suppressing also their hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her ministrations to the sick. This led her, in Un!), to establish hands to the poor." (Prov. xx x i. 10, 20). Observing her a foundation in America. busily engaged during the day, one might have been led to think that her great motherly heart was quite spent in external ministrations for the wel fare of others, so pre­ cisely, quickly and attentively did she despatch one affair after the other. She seemed to think of nothing else but to be engaged in the service of others. But to the obser­ vant eye it was soon discernible that a higher li fe and an internal energy animated and ennobled all her actions. Her whole being had an air of spirituality that inspired vener­ ation. Even uncultured persons could not easily resist the sense of purity, truth and charity which her presence diffused. This was especially noticeable during the Franco-Prus­ sian war, (18�!0-1871), when she and a number of Sisters ministered to the sick and wounded in the field hospitals, and an ungrateful government, after publicly decorating her and her devoted band of Sisters in recognition of their heroic services, rewarded them by issuing the odious "1\J ay­ Laws," and placing every possible obstacle in their way, even endangering the very existence of the Congregation. Tn addition to the perplexity caused by the question to what extent obedience to these laws was permissible. there was also the uncertainty how far the government's prohibition would go in future. After being forced to relinquish teaching in the schools, l\J other Teresa feared that demands Though nothing was farther from her than the obtru­ sion of self" yet every observer was made aware that she possessed a firmness, a brightness and precision rarely found in a woman, joined with masculine power and deter­ mination. Nevertheless, a most tender and truly maternal charity was a predominant trait of her character. A per­ sonality thus happily blending energy, firmness and ten­ derness, exerted by its own force, an influence which few could resist. The secret of her power originated in her interior union with God, to whose service she had elevoted herself from earliest youth. She lived in and for God. To Mother Teresa were applicable the words of the Apostle, "T live, now not T_, but Christ liveth in me." (Galat. ii. 20). She regarded the Congregation as God's work, who began it through her, and through her directed it. She considered herself as a passive instrument in His hand, taking upon herself all the blame for its deficiencies, and none of the credit due to its success. This view of her relation to God and the Congregation also determined her course of action towards the Sisters. From it sprung also her continual sense of responsibility, and the firmness with which she resisted influences that were contrary to the spirit of the institute, and lastly, that sublime charity, in virtue of which she devoted all the •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • l" • • • • • • • o • III I • • I • I I I I • I I • • , • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I Ii • • • I • • I: • I. 8 toS • • • • • • • • � · • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• greater evils, she nevertheless was inflexible when there was ljuc�ti()]1 o f the liberty of the real or inner life of the Order. !\ el igiulb orders are institutions of the Church and uneler eccl.-siast ical jurisdiction. Mother Teresa would have pre­ ferred death before she would consent to making her Con­ gn'gatlull a state institution. In pursuance of these, to her, vital principles, there arose many complications and per­ pIc'\ itic-, because the views, even of Catholics, as to how far concessions might be made to the state, were at variance. The manner of application and execution of the laws, too, \ a..; di ffercnt according to places and functionaries. Not a fe\' nf the latter made the most of their right of sur­ v cillancc over the charitable work of the Congregation. _\ 1 n'ad.\- the Sisters hael been forbidden to teach in the -r hool-, : now they were ousted from the orphan asylums, a n.l onlv the service of the sick was left to them. Since 1875 the reception of new members depended on the government's .mth. Irlzatioll and for a long time all applications for it were refused. The Sisters prayed and hoped. Fearing that her e 111,�T(_'g-atioll. together with all other Catholic religious ordl'r�. mig-ht ultimately he banished from Germany. Mother Tnc�a looker] beyond the ocean for a place of refuge. l • �.��,�.� ti Ii ;: i 8 ft _ � � Ii ¡¡¡ e e ••••••• e I • ea I I I •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ST'. ELISABETH lIOSPITAL, LA F�\ VETTE, Il\'D.--(FRoNT VIEW.) ............... " �' .. ....... ......._.� •• I: iii •••••• FI RST ITosPITAL. :\ EW HOSPITAL. ST. ELIS.ABETH HOSPIT.\L. L.\ F;\ YErrE. 1:\ 1).-( I:TRDSF\lJ.: VIEW.) CHAPEL. s � e s • _.. e == 1:"3 •• il � •••••• e Ir e ca •• ê I) e e I) e _ a is e e !!II I; .. II • II lit � •• Iô1 • II fill • Ii i ÍÎ i • "'I .... " I!!l I � � o c: 3 �,� !3 3 III IIJ • • ,�3 • e Ii • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • c:........................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. �.a • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • , • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • , grovel too near the earth to think of the possibility of the life of self-denial which the Franciscan Sister leads. Humble daughters of St. Francis! Their charity IS as broad as the sea and deep as its abysses. Timid cloves of the sanctuary of Christ, they are strong women who will face iniquity and dare impiety when the duty to which they have vowed their lives calls them to action. The Sisters support themselves and their charitable institutions entirely by the voluntary offerings of those who place themselves under their care, and by the donations received during their collecting tours made at stated times in the cities where they are established and in the surround­ ing country. They gratefully accept whatever is given them, not for themselves personally, but for their charitable institutions. It would be very interesting to relate their varied experiences while making calls, but their religious refinement shrinks from publ icity . As a rule, they meet with the respect due to their vocation, and with a generosity which they describe in terms of warmest praise. The sneering remark sometimes macle by ill-disposed persons that "begging sisters are met at every street corner," does not deter them from their heroic mission. Their charities are multiplying as fast as the miseries of poor human nature. Their clay's work begins before daylight. They have spent two hours in prayer before their patients awaken to another day of misery. It ends only after every inmate of their hospital has been provided with all the comforts which ingenious charity can invent to make the sufferers' night as painless as possible. Then the Sisters rest their weary limbs on a narrow cot of straw, and it affords them a better night's repose than the tenants of downy couches would deem it possible to enjoy. But even then some of the Sisters discount the few homs of sleep to attend during the night some of the stricken patients. Like ministering angels they glide from bed to beel, and unreasonable and petulent as sick people are apt to be, these nurses of the poor know how to comfort, how to please all. What is the source of this immense, this all-comprehend­ ing charity? \Vhilst mingling with the world to make it yield its material wealth for the benefit of the poor; whilst ever busy in charitable ministrations, the Sisters are, above all, religious, schooled in the interior life of the soul, in self-denial and mortification, ever recollected and devoted to prayer and meditation. This is the well-spring at once of their indefatigable labors and of their wonderful achievements . •• • .. • • • • • e � • • • • • • • • • •• • •••••••••••••• II e - ••••• ri ••••••••••• "':3 G • , ••••• II I 10; . 28 • ••••••••• "_ ••••••••••• " •• Gii ,, ••••••••••• ., •••••• • " ..... ft •••••••••••••••••• ï HE RTGIrf REVERE�D JOSEPH RADE\JACTTER, D. D. Bishop of Fort \Yayne . .......... • • • • o .. � " II Ii Ii III • !li •••••••• -c.'1 ••• e e IS lOca I) •• e I) il • 10.' ••••••• ¡¡., .. :29 .. J>--o-� ra • • • • .� • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ........ • • • • , • • • • • • , , • • • • • • • • • e , • • • • .. Iii :;; • • • • • • • e el I • e I • • • • • • • • • • • ID G • • '. I THE RI<;HT RI�\'E]U�: IlER"J¡\:\ JOSEPH .\U�R])l\"C, ]l. D., BisholJ of Fort Vva y nc. ........ II • • • • • • III • • • G • • II • • • • • • • • o • • • • • • • " ................ ' ... �. -4 ........ -4 ....... � ...... � ....... -4.�.- ....... �. -4&�O-4I�.�.�.-4.�.-4."""O" ............ �. -4 ........ -4 ...... � ....... �. -4 ........ -4 ...... � ....... �. -4.�.-4 ...... ' .... � .................... � .. .'� Cl œ è Ii .. il .. • • él a .. œ • o • • • • • .. • • • • • • lit • • • • • O � .. 5 • • .. ill • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .,. • • • • .. • II • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • It il • III t three marble altars, the gift uf generous benefactors. The ligious emblems and designs. 'The sanctuary, thirty-nine ceremonies began at 7 a. 111. and were very elaborate, em- feet deep and sixteen feet wide, is notable for the har- bracing repeated anointing and incensing of the altars, and monious blending of the colors of the decoration with the the chanting of the ritual. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Alerding artistic memorial windows encircling the main altar. Of officiated in full pontificals, assisted by the Rev. Cyprian these windows there are seven in the sanctuary, and two Hanscheid, O. F. 2\T..of Chicago, as deacon and the Rev. in one and four in the other of the transcepts ; two are in Francis de Paul Lotz. O. F. �L, of Cincinnati, O., a for- front of the chapel and eight in the sides. T'he main mer pastor of St. Boniface church, this city, as subdeacon. feature, however, is the three altars and the sanctuary The Rev. 17r. Leander. O. U'. \1., was master of ceremonies. railing, all exquisitely carved in pure white marble. T'he The consecration of the altars and blessing of the chapel sanctuary, aisle and sacristy floors are inlaid with l\T osaic was followed by high mass, celebrated coram Episcopo by tiling of artistic design. Very Rev. Hugolinus Storff, O. F. �I., provincial of St. The architect, Brother Adrian, O. }1". l'L, of St. I ouis, Louis. assisted by deacon and subdeacon as above. The drew the plans, which were executed by the well-known sermon. a lucid and comprehensive review of the vocation contractor, Andrew 1\1 emmer, who also acted as super- and achievements of the sisterhood, and embodying weIl intendent. merited congratulations on the completion of the splendid In the task of undertaking and completing a work of new edifice was preached by the Very Rev. Chrvsostom such magnitude, the Sisters were magnanimously aided by Theoliolcl, C). F. M.. provincial of Cincinnati. Deacons of the following friends and benefactors: honor to the Tlishop were Very Rev. Jeanette, Omaha, N eb. Donations for the Chapel.- and Very Rev. Lucas Gottebehoecle, O. F. 1\T. Main altar, donated by John \Vagner_, deceased. T'he chapel is entered from Fourteenth street through Frescoing and painting of chapel, �r essrs. J arnes. a spacious and well appointed vestibule. It is a beauti fuI Charles and Samuel 1\1 urdock and families. (�( ith ic edifice one hundred and twenty-eight feet long and Three windows, the crucifixion, in memory of Sr. 1\ I. i] fty feet wide. Fluted pillars divide it into three aisles, Alphonsa, Prov. Sup., the sacrifice of M elchisedech, the the middle one being forty-six feet six inches high, the siele sacrifice of Abraham, �Tiss Laura \Vagner. (dlC� twenty-nine feet. From the capitals of the pillars Tiling for sanctuary, sacristy and aisle, 1\1 iss Laura ri��) the groined arches of the Gothic ceiling which, like the \Tagner. ! \ ;d1�. is decorated in chaste colors, showing various re- Sanctuary lamp, Miss Laura Wagner. �... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • D • • • • • • • • • • • • • • e I • • • .. • • • :I II • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • &. • • . , • • • . . la • • • • • • • • • • • Ga CI 11 ... �. 41 • .,." •••••••••• o ••• e ••• ' · ••••••••••••••••• e ••••••••••• I1 •••••••••••• ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL, COLU::vr:BUS, NEB. � •••••••••••••• I •••••••••••••• I •••••••••• I ••• • •••• lID •• e ......................................••• 43 .......... I .... I' � I" • I ••••• I 1.1 •• I ••• at ••••••••••••••• 1.1 I I" I' lA I I" I •••••••• I ••••••• 11+-+-0 •• I I •••••• ST. FRA)JCIS ACl\DEMY, COLUMBUS, NEB . ................ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • , •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• e la ca . 45 t. · · · · · · · 't' ••• e e •• e •••••••• e ., •••••••..••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• le e •••• , •••••••••••••• contains the cornmun ity room, dining r00111 and eleven rooms for domestic purposes. On the second and thirel floors are four dormitories, seventeen private rooms for hospital purposes and sixteen rooms for the community's use. The attic contains dormitories and storage rooms. The arrangements are modern and complete throughout and special attention is given to ventilation and sanitary conditions. Pressed brick, sandstone trimmings and terra cotta ornaments are notable features of the exterior. The architect, Brother Adrian, O. F. 1\J., of St. Louis, drew the plans, which were executed by the well known contractor, Andrew 1\T cmmer. who also acted as super­ intendent. In the new hospital wing rooms were furnished by: l\T embers of the Lafayette fire department, Emsing brothers, Pottlitzer brothers, Dr. Guy P. Levering, Dr. arid l rs. E. C. Davidson, Dr. and :\Trs. Charles D. Kern, Dr. and 1\lrs. Manson xr. Lairy, Dr. and :\1rs. Samuel S. Washburn, William Folckemer & Son and Foster Furniture Company, Lambda Iota Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, Leopold Dryfus and Miss l\T a rian Born, in memory of :\1rs. L. Dry fus : Frederick S. Chase, Dr. anel l\ r rs. Ernest Baker, Richard B. Sample, l\[ r. and 2\T rs. George H. Tho­ mas, Mr. and :Mrs. Henry A. Taylor, in memory of 1\/fajor \Villiam Taylor, l r. and :\Irs. John Reifers, l\I rs. John B. \Vagner, :\T r. and }\ Ir s. Kicholas S. Reifers, Dr. and lVT rs. �1ilton S. Hopper, Thomas :\1 urclock, three surgical dress­ ing rooms by the doctors . Subscriptions ranging from $5 to $500 wer e received from various sources, amongst them physicians merchants, railroads, the press and citizens generally. Favors were received from the gas anel electric companies anel the newspapers. The convent part of the hospital building is the mother­ house of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in the United States. It is also the Sisters' Novitiate, or Training School. In prayer, humiliations and acts of self­ denial are here trained moral heroines who ignore the pleasures and vanities of the wor ld, whose mission is the care, the comfort and relief of the poor and sick, anel the instruction and education of children, and whose only reward is the inheritance of God's kingdom. The object of the novitiate is to try the novice's voca­ tion, anel to train her for it. First of all, she is taught how to perform the duties of the religious life, which demands of her not an ordinary service of God, but a more perfect one, as is evident from the nature and character of the religious life. This science of perfection in the service of God is so sublime, and at the same time so distasteful and repugnant to human nature, that whoever is well grounded in it will cheerfully fulfill all other obligations. Hence the importance attached to it in all religious communities. During the novitiate the novice is not under vows, but enjoys full liberty of returning to the world. Not until she has pronounced the perpetual vows is the Franciscan Sister bound forever, on her part, to the religious state. •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• II .................•• f i I 47 t .... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 0,0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ... • • • • • • • •• As she is not coerced in any way to pronounce them, it is evident that if she does so, she renounces personal liberty by her own free will and choice. As to her future duties in the active Ii f e, the novice is trained to everything pertaining to her employment in the sick room or in the school. In addition to their eminent success as hospital nurses, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration achieved also an excellent reputation as teachers. The Catholic Church always has refused, always will refuse to concede that education, divorced from religion, fulfills the ideal of what education ought to be. In practice, education divorced from religion means ec1ucation divorced from effective moral training. Hence the Catholic Church can never accept or sanction any system of education which treats religion as a matter of no importance, or of second­ ary importance. Catholics are not opposed to universal education. or to compulsory education, or to methods and contrivances of whatever kind by which knowledge and enlightenment may be diffused through the masses of the people. In this direction Catholics are willing and anxious to go as far as others. But they are opposed, necessarily and unalterably opposed, to any and all systems of edu­ cation which either ignore or exclude religious knowledge, since they believe and hold that know ledge to be the prima] anel most essential element of true human culture, and con­ sequently that it should form the basis of instruction and discipline in the school, as well as in the family and in tlu church. As religion cannot Le introduced into the public school­ of this country for obvious reasons, Catholics saw no other way to train their children in the manner described above. than to establish their own schools, despite the hardship entailed on them by the support of a double system of schools-the public and the parochial. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration were fully prepared on their arrival in this country, to act a­ teachers in Catholic parochial and higher schools. L neler the direction of the pastor, they teach all the branches taught in the same grades in the public schools, and more­ over, what is of the greatest importance, a full and complete course of Christian doctrine, embracing Catechism. Bible history and the practice of religion. The Sisters took charge of St. Boniface school in La­ fayette as soon as they were firmly established and had attained sufficient membership. This was at the beginning of the school term of urt, -lS,'S, when six Sisters took charge of about 200 children in four classes. 1\11(1 up to this clay their pupils attain, in all eight gracIes, when enter­ ing into competitive examinations with public school pupil­ of the same grade, a high percentage of proficiency . •• • • • .. & ., •• o ••••••• I e •••• I • ra • I •••••••• è ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• c .. 48 ... • • • • • I ..... , • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I • I • • • • • • • • I • I • • • • • • • • • • • • ST. JOSEPlr'S DIOCES .. :\� ORPIL\X ¡\SYLl;�I, L\FXYETTE,. I:\D . ............................................................................. , ..............................• tn .. il -o-e lit II a ti • .., , e s GI • :'J • • • • • • • • • • e ; Cl • � • e I e ,_, • , • • • • • • • • • • , • • , • • o • • 8 o • e.. , , , • • , , • • , • • • , • , • • • , , , • • • i t � • i t t i • +-. , , , • , 6 • e , • , ••••••••••••••••••••• l" •••••••••• I • D o •... .). Hovi E For, TITE ACED. This historical sketch of the Franciscan Sisters' work 111 Lafayette would be incomplete if we did not brieHy mention that, in 18!);3, they accepted a call to St. Joseph's Diocesan Orphan Asylum, where they took charge of the domestic department and the school. The average number of boys in this institution is 11 '2. In the fall of 18D'1, the Sisters bought a tract of land comprising about .'20 acres, 011 Twenty-second and Cason streets, Lafayette. and opened a Home for the Aged in a building used by the former owner as a dwelling. On the lí th of July, U)02, the Very Reverend Dean J. R. Dinnen o f St. � Iarvs church laid the cornerstone of a large and - uhstantial building and an appropriate chapel. The new Home was dedicated to St. Anthony. and the chapel to Our Lady of Angels. On the Gth of October. 190;�. the dedicatory services were were conducted by the lü. Rev. Herman J. Alercling, hishop of the diocese of Fort \Vayne. On his arrival at the BOIlle a procession was formed by forty altar boys and the visiting clergy in cassock and surplice. Psalms were chanted as the procession advanced. Tn the rear came the bishop, assisted by Rev. Solanus Schaefer, O. F. �J.. of I �atesville. as deacon: Rev. Charles E. �lcCaue as sub­ deacon, and Rev. Leander as master of ceremonies. The blessing of the Home; both exterior and interior, being over, the bishop began the blessing of the little chapel. After the blessing, solemn high mass began at n o'clock, with Father Leonard as celebrant: Rev. Solanus Schaefer as deacon and Rev. �rcCabe as sub-deacon, and Rev. Leander as master of ceremonies. Rev. 2\1. J. Byrne preached a beautiful sermon on "Charity," congratulatory of the work clone in Lafayette in this good cause both to the orphan, the sick anel now to the aged � thanking those who have reared this granel home in the cause of those who need a staff upon which to lean in their declining years: grateful to those who smooth the wrinkle from the brow and turn it into the smile of spring or summer: reminding people of the fact that such charity makes a nation great and prosperous, as it knows no race, no creed, no country, but embraces all. In the circle of the sanctuary were Revs. L __ ucas, Dominic, Bartholemew, Din­ nen, Richard and Hyrne. The visiting clergy were: Revs, John Cuendling, of Peru: C. B. Cuenclling. of St. Joseph's orphans' home; Von Schwecller, of Attica: M ossman, of I __ aporte, and Doccarcl, of Delphi. St. Anthony's Home has r00111 for GU inmates, and employs I 1 Sisters. A large and beautiful garden sur­ rounrls it, whilst the shady grounds of forest trees in the adjoining grove afford ample space for outdoor exercise. \Vithin easy reach from the city. yet removed from its clin and bustle, it is an ideal place for aged people to spend their declining years . ... , ..............................................................................................• ST. A�THONY'S HOME FOR THE AGED, LAFAYETTE, IND . •••••••••• ' ••• 41 ' . 57 •• !Ii , ...............................••• , •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I , ••••••• 4�'" •••• e. , • • .. • i ¡ ST. JOSEPH'S CRETGHTOX �ID[ORL\L HOSPIT.\L, O: AH.\. \'EB + ••••••• il •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 11'0 " ••• , •• " . ut .. �e e I •• '.1 " II I & • e e e e e , • e o •• -= • " ••••••. e CI I II " , e e e • e , I e ...... II GI •••••. e •• II � e , • e e • e • e e • e ••••••••••••••••••• ST. A�TI-I()N,)"S TT()SPIT.\L, TE1Œ.E lL 'TE. IXn. �......- ...... �� ..... , ••••••• fi •• II •••••••••••••• � •••••••••••••• II II al al ••••••• �,� • " - - e " s ••••••• � SI o ••••••••••• " ••• , 8. acts of self-denial were a well-spring of continual blessings. She infused her spirit into her spiritual daughters. From her they learned to cherish their holy rule, to love prayer and to trust in Cod. A gentle and mild mother to them, she was anxiously solicitous for their spiritual and tem­ poral welfare, and they, in return respected and loved her most sincerely and devotedly. Tn human estimation, her course was all too short. On February -lth, 18(�), Sister Agatha, Sister Clara's Assistant, departed this life. She too, was a member of the original band of Sisters sent to this country, and her loss, like Sister Clara's death, was deeply felt by the little community. After Sister Clara's death. 1\ Iother Teresa appointed Sister Deo Gratias Sl1perior at St. Elizabeth's and of the branch houses and then returned to Cennanv. During the administration of Sister Deo Gratias, a nttm­ ber of new foundations were made, hut in ] 88-1, she was recalled to Germany, and Sister Hyacintha was appointed in her place. Xl eanwlrilc the number of Sisters increased 111 a very gratifying manner, by accession to their ranks not only of postulants sent from Cermany, but also of American girls who responded to the call of Heaven to serve C;oc1 in this flour ish ing branch of the Fr anciscan Order. Hospitals and schools in charge of the Sisters multiplied, and, as is related elsewhere. in Lafayette new buildings had to be erected for the accommodation of postulants, novices arid Sisters, and to provide room for the ever increasing nU111- ber of patients Flocking to St. Elisabeth Hospital, Accordingly, in Isst;, l other Teresa came �) second time to the LT nited States. A fter visiting all the branch houses meanwhile founded, she appointed Sister Alphonsa Superioress Provincial, and returned with Sister Hyacintha to C;ermany. �August I �thJ 18S(), Sister Bonaventura departed this life) being the third of tbe original band of Sisters sent to Lafavette. A new building, adjoining those already erected, was completed in I 889. Tn 18D 1. �Iother Teresa, made her third and last official visit to th is country, returning in the fall of the same year. The new hospital erected in 18%, is fully described in a former chapter. On Septemher ??th, 18�)D, Archbishop �Iartinelli, ;\pos­ tolie Delegate to the United States, and in La fayette for the consecration of St. lloniface Church, honored the Sisters and their institution with his visit. In the chapel, he ad­ dressed the C01111l1tmlty anrl imparted the "\postolic l lcnc­ diction. The death of � Iother Alphonsa, l\ I ay 1 K, U)()(), 15 re­ corded in a former chapter, also the cornerstone laying of a new chapel and convent, and their dedication, December .n, 1905. In February, 190G, the Sisters received notice of the •.................................. ,,) e c. (\(j • •••• , • II � II,� II II ••• � ••••••....... ] �)()9, by the Chaplain, H.ev. Clement �teinkall1p, O. F. lvI. On the feast of Corpus Christi each year the sacramental procession is held in the grounds. Since September t-\, 1 DWt, a devotional statue of St. Joseph adorns the center of the hospital park. In December of the same year a marble altar, and a statue of the Sacred Heart, also in fine Carrara marble, were placed in the chapel. In ] 008, a beautiful Lourdes Grotto was erected in the grounds in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the apparition of our blessed Lady to the peasant child, Bernardotte, at Lourdes, France. In April, I 909, the Superioress General, Mother Paula, sent her assistant, Sister Verena, to make the visitation of the American branch houses. She returned to Europe in September, well pleased with the American communities' progress. Two notable visitors honored the Sisters' institution with a visit September 23, 1909: the Right Rev. Bishop Linneborn, of Dacca, in India, and the Very Rev. Father Mor risscv, Provincial of the Congregation of the lIolv Cross, of Notre Dame, Indiana. On July Lôth, 1£nO, two Sisters were sent to South Chicago to begin a new foundation-that of St. George's Hospital. On October 5th, the same year, the Right Reverend Bishop Alerding consecrated two marble altars in the hos­ pital chapel. The Sacred Heart altar is the gift of �Trs. i\Iary Dienhart. deceased; that of St. Anthony is él memo­ rial to their deceased parents, donated by �I essrs. Samuel and Charles ?\T urelock. After the consecration, the nisll