The First Nuns in Arkansas, 1851
Early Days in Little Rock On the 6th of February, 1851, the Sisters, under the fatherly care of the bishop, reached their new home among the forest trees after an unusually prosperous journey. They...
View ArticleCatholic Poetry: “You Silent Dead,” In Honor of the Civil War Veterans
“YOU SILENT DEAD” By Sister Ignatius Summer, R.S.M. The silent dead! The silent dead! I’ve lingered where they sleep in peace, Where care, and want, or thought of dread There anguished vigils cease....
View ArticleMother Austin Carroll, R.S.M. (1835-1909)
Mother Austin Carroll, authoress of the Life of Mother Mc Cauley, Leaves of the Annals of the Sisters of Mercy (4 vols.), Life of St Alphonsus, Life of Venerable Clement Hofbauer, Glimpses of Pleasant...
View ArticleThe Sisters of Mercy in Early San Francisco
In the summer of 1854, a young Irish priest named Hugh Gallagher traveled back to his homeland from a far-off city on the other side of the world known as San Francisco. Father Gallagher’s job was to...
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