Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history - the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna - by Anna C. Minogue (1921) (14587369850)

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Title: Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Minogue, Anna Catherine, b. 1874
Subjects: Dominican Sisters. Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena (St. Catherine, Ky.) -- History
Publisher: New York : F. Pustet, (1921?)
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois



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convent and school were encum-bered by a debt of two thousand dollars, which wasa heavy one in those days, and that Father Miles hadsigned their bond, he decided there was no alter-native for the sisters but to sell their farm, pay theirobligations and disband. It is doubtful which feeling predominated inthe convent of Saint Mary Magdalen, grief at theaffliction that had come to them, or surprise at thedemand made of them. In seven y^ears they hadgrown from a community of eight to seventeen mem-bers; the log convent of one room had been replacedby a large, and, for the times, comfortable conventand school; their pupils were annually increasing;they had passed the experimental stage; they hadmade a place for themselves, and with time andconstructive guidance, they would advance and bein a position to carry their usefulness to other fields.Their debt was burdensome, but eventually theywould be relieved of it. They could not see that any-thing would be gained by asking release from their
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Bishop Miles A Time of Trial Go VOWS •and returning to the world, while much harmmight Iesult in the loss of vocations and the injury toreligion, in the wrong interpretation that might beplaced upon their action. When they held out in their intention to followthe life to which they knew God had called them, con-tinue the work that had been entrusted to them,Father Munos refused to allow the sisters to haveMass or confession in their chapel, and obliged themto attend the services in Saint Rose Church. So theycame to their fiery trial, but it only strengthenedthe earnestness and fortitude of this little band ofheroic women. They knew the rule by which theyhad been disciplined and which had been adapted totheir needs by Father Wilson and approved by theHoly See and the Pro-Vicar General of the Order.They kept in mind the spirit of their founder. Hislife of hardship and sacrifice had ever been an in-spiration to them, now it was their guiding hand.He had taught them that Christ was thei