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464 464 B. LOUISA under the reform of St. Colette. From her entrance she wonld not be called '< Sister Louisa." She liyed there a pattern of perfection for ten years and died on the eve of St. James in 1503. Miracles at her tomb attested her holiness. She was locally venerated as a saint, but only beatified more than throe centuries afterwards. She Is the fifth saint of the house of Sayoy. Bargener, Helvetia Sancta. B. Louisa (2) or Ludoviga degli Albertoni, Jan. 31, + 1033. She was a member of the ancient and noble family of the Albertoni As a widow she was enrolled in the 3rd O.S.F. She was buried in the church of St. Francis in the Trastevere in Bome, and was regarded as a saint and worked miracles. Her worship was sanctioned in 1G71 by Clement X. B,M. Lambertini. Ana* leeta, AAJSS. Jacobilli. B. Louisa (3) Torelli, Oct. 28, 1500-1509. Countess of Guastalla. Married (1) Louis Stanghi; (2) Antonio Martinenghi, who ill treated her and who had murdered his first wife ; Louisa's brother killed him in a duel. She founded, in 1557, the royal college of the B. V. Mary, called « of Guastalla," and several houses and orders, intending the members to make themselyes useful to society by helping the sick and train- ing the young ; but eyentually, they all joined other orders or set up a rule of cloister for themselves. She took the veil in her own monastery of St. Paul at Milan under the name of Paula Mary, in 1536. She preached so well at Venice that many persons of both sexes left their families and took the religious habit. The Venetian governor ordered her to leave Venice. She went to Vicenza and other places and returned to Milan, where she died. Collin do Plancy, Saintes et Bienheurcuses. A Life of her by Ros- sigQoli was published at Milan in 1G86. B. Louisa (4), or Aloysia, Sept. 8, and 12, + 1628. An aged Japanese woman, martyred at Nangasaki with twenty-seven men, many of whom were of the O.S.D., and some of the O.S.F. She was one of the 205 beatified with Lucy de Fkeitas. B. Louisa (5), March 17, 1592-1660, generally called Mademoiselle Le Gras. She was of the noble but not rich Auvergnat family of Marillac and married Antoine Le Gras, seoretaiy of state under Marie de Medicis. Louisa was a devoted and efficient assistant of St. Vincent de Paul. They made it their business to look after galley slaves, thieves, foundlings, and all who were most wretched and neglected, and those whom other charities did not reach. Vincent and Louisa are remembered as founders of the wide-spread Association of Daughters of Charity, to be found in attendance in hospitals and asylums, on battlefields, and in charge of deserted children, attending on Uie victims of pestilence or leprosy, and, in short, wherever there is most need of a cheer- ful, helpful, courageous woman. Life of Mademoiselle Le Chas^ by a Frendi Sister of Charity, 1883. Lives of SL Vincent de Paul. Migne, Die. Hag. Her canonization is still in the hands of the Congregation of Kites. Ven. Louisa (6"),June 21, 1836-1870, V. M. AUce O'Sullivan, an Irish Sister of Charity of the Association of Si Vincent de Paul, was sent, in 1863, with others, to Shanghai, to take care of a European hospital there. As all the authorities were English Protestants^ the Sister Superior who was French, was much discouraged, and thought it little short of a miracle that Sister O'Sullivan interpreted all the requests so well and always put the case no nicely that the sisters obtained everything they wanted. Louise (her name in religion) found China and the Chinese extremely anti- pathetic. Her life was a continual struggle against a violent repugnance. Sbo confided her difficulties to the Father General, Monsieur Etienne. He authorized her to go home with Sister Azais, the inspector, who was about to return to France. They started home- ward from Pekin visiting on their way the sisters of St. Vincent who occupied the house of the Holy Childhood at Tientsin. Those sisters were over- whelmed with work and short of hands. The superior was much hindered in the establishment of the European hospital
 * Countess " or " Gracious Lady," but