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Title: Venerable Philippine Duchesne

Author: G. E. M.

Other: Remigius Lafort, S.T.L.
Archbishop John Farley
Angelus Mariani, S.C., Adv.

Release Date: April 28, 2010 [EBook #32165]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: MOTHER PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE]

Venerable Philippine Duchesne

BY

G. E. M.

A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE
AND WORK OF THE FOUNDRESS
OF THE SOCIETY OF THE
SACRED HEART IN AMERICA

NEW YORK
THE AMERICA PRESS
1914

NIHIL OBSTAT
ANGELUS MARIANI, S.C., ADV.
_Sacr. Rit. Congregationis Assessor_

NIHIL OBSTAT
REMIGIUS LAFORT, S.T.L.
_Censor_

IMPRIMATUR
JOHN CARDINAL FARLEY
Archbishop of New York

COPYRIGHT 1914
BY
THE AMERICA PRESS

_In accordance with the decrees of Urban VIII. and other Sovereign
Pontiffs, we hereby declare that the terms holy and saintly, as applied
to the Venerable Philippine Duchesne, or other personages mentioned in
the following pages, are used merely in their ordinary and untechnical
sense, without any thought of anticipating the decision of the Church
which alone is empowered to pronounce authoritatively in such matters._

PREFACE.

There have been many heroic figures in the history of American
Catholicity. The sowing of the faith in our beloved land was not
accomplished lightly. Anguish of soul and weariness of body were
required of our pioneers, no less than of those of other lands. Our
predecessors in this portion of God's vineyard left home and kindred and
friends and cast themselves on a strange shore, wanderers for God's
cause, giving their lives in labor and anguish of spirit, that the glad
tidings of salvation might be spread far and wide.

Some of these folk were martyrs in very truth. Through the mercy of
Christ their heart's blood has sanctified our soil. Others by living
their length of days in the midst of privations and sorrows, that Christ
might be known and glorified, fell little short of the m