cluding the two recently
established day schools in Japan, at Tokio and Kobe.

Sixty years have gone by since Venerable Mother Duchesne was laid away
to rest, close to the old "Rock Church" adjoining the convent of St.
Charles; but she still lives in the memory of the people among whom she
toiled, and prayed, and suffered. In the convent, the staircase that cut
off a large corner of her cell has been removed to another place; and
that narrow little room, still known as "Mother Duchesne's Cell," has
been converted into a sanctuary in which are kept all the mementoes of
the holy mother, which have not found their way elsewhere. Conspicuous
among those remaining at the convent, is the picture of St. Francis
Regis, which in fulfillment of a vow, she had placed above the altar of
the Church at Florissant. In the community, her virtues are still
recalled, and her actions recounted. The little oratory in the front
garden, often sees the religious on their knees in prayer, beside her
tomb, and it is likewise piously frequented by people of the town, and
of the neighboring country, as also by pilgrims from St. Louis and
elsewhere. Her name is a household word among the Catholics of Missouri,
and her pupils and their descendants have borne it with them, wherever
the vicissitudes of life have carried them. Even the remnants of the
Pottowatomie tribe, now located in the Indian Territory, still speak
with veneration of "The woman who prays always," whom it was the
happiness of their grandfathers to have known. She is one of the
traditions of the country, and has left a stamp upon it so strongly
marked that even the casual traveler, if at all observant, can not fail
to notice it. Catholic France has had a very considerable share in the
upbuilding of the Catholic Church in this country, through the labors of
so many heroic missionaries whom she sent out to us, even in the midst
of her struggles against persecution at home. And among the many gifts
by which she has acquired a title to the gratitude of American
Catholics, one of the greatest was the Venerable Philippine Duchesne.

THE FRANK MEANY CO., PRINTERS. INC., NEW YORK

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