Great American Foundresses

American Bardstown beautiful Bishop Flaget Blessed Sacrament called Carmel Carmelite Catherine Spalding Catholic chapel Christ Church congregation convent cross daugh daughters dear death devoted diocese Divine Emmitsburg Eulalie faith Father Donaghoe Father Neale Father Nerinckx Feast foundation foundress France friends God's Grey Nuns happy Heaven Holy Hospital Jesuit Jesus Kentucky labor land lives Longueuil Lord Loretto Madame d'Youville Madame Gamelin Maryland mission Montreal Mother Amadeus Mother Angela Mother Catherine Mother Clare Joseph Mother Connelly Mother d'Youville Mother Duchesne mother house Mother Mary Rose Mother Seton Mother Teresa Mother Theodore Nazareth never novices poor pray prayer priest pupils received religious religious habit Reverend Ruillé Sacred Heart sacrifice Saint seemed Sister Mary sisterhood Sisters of Charity Sisters of Mercy Sisters of Providence society sorrow soul spiritual suffering Superior sweet tion to-day trials Ursulines Visitandine vows Warde women wrote young zeal