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234 LA SCEUB ROSALIE. "
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and which sh e made auxiliary to the body of ladies before mentioned * back She t to aug those ht them beneath liow them to visit the _and care to and succour tenderness the poor which , and the to Sisters render
liad bestowed upon themselves . Thus she carried the female child of the Faubourg Saint Marceauformerllected in its infancyand
exposed to moral dangers in its , youth y , from the creche into , the asile and the school ; while from the school it was received
successively into the association of the Patronage and the Bon- _Consetl _, and thus d in the paths of reliion and purity .
preserveg shall The last accoun institution twas founded one for t b y benefi La Sosur t of t Rosalie he d of which . She we poor
took deep g ly to heart , the miserable condition of those age who felt their strength failing day bdayuntil at lengthno longer able to work ,
y , , they _knew not in the morning- how to gain their daily bread , nor from week ' s end to week ' s end where they should find lodging ,
clothes , and food . Life which depends on the caprice of a passer by _, or the good will of a neighbour , or the success of a petition
addressed to a stranger , is an existence at the mercy of chance . She managed to collect a number of such old people in a house in the Rue Pascaland there kept them warm and
shelteredsurrounded btheir , own little articles of furnitureand their tools , b which they y could still ain a little for food , and clothes ; , y d
gmoney here , in her old age , she would delight to go , seeing * that they wanted for nothing . The of this humble menage did not
expenses mount up to any great yearly sum , but it possessed no fixed revenue , and the rent was whollmade up by voluntary contributions which
never failed . At the end y of each half hidden haads reularl brought the money required for the following year , one . But no engage gy
ment or promise had ever been made , and the uncertainty for the future made La _Soaur Rosalie anxious . " I cannot die easy , " she
often said , ' unless I can give a solid and durable character to this work , and insure that these poor old folks shall never be turned out of their house . " During her last illnessthough she did not
, foresee its fatal issue , she spoke more than once of this asylum ; of her fears for its future , and her extreme desire to leave it to her
old friends . This was the last thought , the last wish which she _ex- _^ pressed . So far as she was permitted to know 5 this wish was
not accomplished ; she died without having been able to create a permanent foundation . Eut after her deatha house was bought to
receive the aged poor of the twelfth arrondissement , ; the proteges of La Soeur Rosalie were installed therein on the 1 st of October , 1856 ,
and it was called after her patron saint . Thus the permanency of of this charitable work is secured , and a living monument erected
to the benevolent piety of the dead .
{ To be continued , )
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234 La Sceub Rosalie. "
234 LA SCEUB ROSALIE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/18/
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