of
the missionary, she caught the glow of her holy enthusiasm, and felt
that she too would one day be called to follow in her footsteps. This
child was Anna du Rousier. When next she saw Mother Duchesne, it was at
the deathbed of the latter, as already related. When she came to
America, it was with the understanding that, after giving a year to the
visitation of the houses of the Society, she would proceed to South
America, and see how conditions were in various places of that part of
the world, where foundations had been asked for. It can not be doubted
that she earnestly recommended her future mission to Mother Duchesne,
and received from her a fervent promise that she would intercede for it.
The year following her deathbed interview with the saintly Mother she
received orders to set out for Santiago de Chili under the guidance and
protection of a small company of Chilian priests bound for that city,
and to begin a foundation there. When this order reached her, God
permitted that she should be seized with so violent a repugnance for
this mission that, though she did not for a moment think of offering any
objections, it was only after spending an entire night on her knees
before the Blessed Sacrament, in agonized struggles and supplications to
her Divine Master, that He stilled the tempest of temptation, and gave
her the victory. Mother du Rousier was a character of heroic type,
worthy of a place beside even such women as Mother Barat and her great
daughter, Mother Duchesne. It was after a long and dangerous journey,
with Mother Mary McNally, an American professed from the New York
Vicariate, and one lay sister, that she reached her destination, and
began the foundation at Santiago in 1853. At her death in 1880, two
years after celebrating its silver jubilee, she left five houses, four
in Chili and one in Peru, while a sixth was in preparation in the city
of Buenos Aires. At the present time there are two Vicariates on the
South American continent, and a house at Bogota, in the Republic of
Colombia.

We have still to speak of two other offshoots, sprung from the same root
as the North and South American Vicariates. These are the Vicariates of
Mexico and Oceania. The former is due, under the direction of the
Superior General of the Society, to the enterprise and devotedness of
the then Vicar of Louisiana, Reverend Mother Elizabeth Moran, at that
time residing in Grand Coteau, Mother Duchesne's second foundation, of
wh