ich she had been a pupil. With a few companions from her own
Vicariate, she began the foundation of Mexico in 1882. About seventeen
years later when she was removed to another field of labor, she left
behind her a fully organized Vicariate comprising eight houses,
including two in Havana and one in Puerto Rico, all founded by herself
except the boarding-school of Havana, which was the work of that other
great religious, Mother Aloysia Hardey, who was herself a pupil of Grand
Coteau, and the foundress of most of the Eastern houses of the Society.

Perhaps the most remarkable of the Religious of the Sacred Heart trained
by Mother Duchesne in person, was Mother Anna Shannon, who was such a
power in Louisiana, especially during the Civil War. She was then in
charge of the Vice-Vicariate of Louisiana and resided in St. Michael's,
while not far away, also fronting the Mississippi River, stood the
old-time Jefferson College, which the calamities of the time had closed.
The war was not yet over when it was reopened by a band of French Marist
Fathers, invited by Bishop Odin, and Madame Shannon, as she was
generally called, with the warmhearted liberality that characterized
her, gave them every assistance in her power. They became the chaplains
of the convent, and were the kindest of neighbors. Ten or twelve years
later, Father Chataignier, one of the Fathers who had reopened the
college, was engaged in missionary work in New Zealand. Having been
consulted by Archbishop Redwood of Wellington, as to the religious
Congregation to which it would be advisable to entrust the academy for
girls he wished to found in his diocese, the good Father at once
proposed the Society of the Sacred Heart. The negotiations which
followed resulted in the foundation of Timaru, made in person by
Reverend Mother Suzanna Boudreau, who had also been educated at Grand
Coteau, and had succeeded Reverend Mother Anna Shannon as Vicar of
Louisiana. At this time, however, she was in charge of the Vicariate of
the West and toward the end of 1879 she set out with a little band of
her own daughters, for the first foundation of the Society of the Sacred
Heart in Oceania. Mother Boudreau was to have returned to St. Louis as
soon as it was organized; but early in the following year, an acute
laryngitis carried her off in a few days. This sorrowful event placed
the stamp of the cross upon the new-born foundation, which has since
grown into a Vicariate of ten houses, in