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154 :la sastm rosame.
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all tliat hung * upon her silence ; a fatal lesson which Jeanne was not slow to comprehendwhen some few days afterwards her own cousin
the Mayor of Anneey , was shot in the public square , for having tried , to save the church , from spoliation . When La Soeur Rosalie , in
later years , recalled these frightful events , she trembled and thanked God , who had preserved her from the terrible grief of having caused
such a crime , even by a childish and involuntary indiscretion . breath When once at leng more th , J the eanne Rei ' s gn mother of Terror sent her ended to comp , and lete France her educa drew
founded St tion Ursula in a in school 1537 The , b kept vivacious y Angela at Gex child da , h Brescia y had XJrsuline sobered , and named nuns down . after This into the a order sensitive British , was
. . the towards and li deep ht a l of y reli p a ious novice gious young life than , that g of irl a , the and scholar Ursulines so . strong But thoug appeared Jeanne ht , was of to her not be rather her inclined bias in g
to the life of the cloister ; it . _wasf foreign to her nature . She wanted when to be busy she left in active the church charity she ; she felt loved an and impulse admired to go hex strai teachers ght to , but an
prayer hospital h ; y som and e work when of she mercy prayed . She she did wanted not feel to it supp enoug lement h to wait her
for Lazarus at the door of a convent ; she wanted , to go forth and seek him , to give him shelter , to warm his cold limbs , and to comfort his sad heart . The wish , in short , to be a Sister of
Charityadditional the grew Superior up in strength her who soul . , had and She charge a got visit leave wldch of the from she hosp her paid ital mother wi of th her Gex to pass mother gave some to it
time among the patients , helping the Superior , and serving an apprenticeshi It came to p in devotedness that one of . her friendsfifteen older than years
herselfhad come pass to the resolution of entering , the Sisterhood of St . and Vincent which , de Napoleon Paul , an order then First wholly Consul devoted _^ had to recentl works y of re ben -established evolence ,
in France . When Jeanne , heard this she poured out her heart to her friendtold her lier desireshopesand prayersand , liow she had
prayed God , to accept her for the , service , of the sick , , and implored Mademoiselle Jaequiiiot to take her with her . The woman of thirty
her obje to cted wait to the to youth ive herself , and inexperience more time for of reflection the girl , , and of fifteen assured , ; told her
that her moth , er g would not consent . Then- Jeanne went to Madame Rendu Rendu , was and afraid knelt of at a her hast feet project imploring she ? dreade her leave d her . . child Madame
mistaking . her vocation ; but she y had two ; other daughters , and , herself a : devout Catholicshe saw nothing unnatural in Jeanne ' s
determination entance , provided . Finall it was , yshe well gave grounded her a and letter likel to an y to eccle be siastic followed in Parisj by no
sure rep that he would test , Jeanne and send her back if it were best , and allowed her daughter to leave with Mademoiselle Jacquinot .
The young girl cried bitterly at leaving her . mother , for it was
154 :La Sastm Rosame.
154 : la _sastm _rosame .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/10/
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