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tion, at the earnest solicitation of Archbishop Walsh Nazareth, Kentucky, has 65 branch houses in the of Halifax, sent four Sisters to establish a mission in Archdioceses of Baltimore and Boston and the his metropohtan see, the purposes of which were Dioceses of Louisville, Covington, Nashville. Little the education of youth, the care of orphans, and Rock, Natchez, Columbus, Baker Cit;^, and Rich- the visitation of the sick. The rapid growth of mond. The order is thus represented in Kentucky, these works, coupled with the im{>ossibility on the Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Ohio, Massa- part of the young mother-house in New York to chusetts, Maryland, Vir^inia^ and Oregon. The Sis- furnish the necessary help, led Archbishop Walsh ters conduct the following institutions: 3 colleges, to formulate a plan for a separate mother-house, one of which is a commercial college and anotner in which the superiors in New York graciously con- a junior college; 15 academies; 58 parochial schools; curred. This plan met with the approval of the 5 hospitals and infirmaries, caring yearly for 10,349 Holy See, and on 8 December. 1855, the Halifax patients; 6 orphanages, having in all about 856 mission became a sei)arate mother-house endowed orphans; 1 home for aged men; 1 home for work- with the same privileges conferred on previous ing mrls; 1 sanitarium. The society numbers 978 foundations. Sister M. Basilia McCann, who had members with 20,180 pupils under their instruction, governed the mission from its establishment, was Educational work is not their only activity, for elected mother superior of the new foundation. She they care also for the sick, invalids, prisoners, and had been educated at Emmitsburg and received as the insane. The governing body of the society con- a member of the community at St. Joseph's b^ sists of a Mother Genersd and five assistants, one Mother Seton. Notwithstanding the manv dim- of whom is treasurer general and another secretary culties which the Halifax motner-house had to general. During the last decade thirtv-two golden encounter in the process of its development, it jubilarians have died, besides many other members, flourished, and at present coimts 35 houses, 6 of Among the deceased are: Mother Alphonsa Kerr which are in the Diocese of Boston, and 1 in (d. 1913), Sister Marie Menard (d. 1914), Sister Bermuda. In the scope of its works the institute Aurea O'Brien (d. 1916), Sister Euphrasia Stafford embraces grammar school and higher education, the (d. 1917).

care of orphans, the sick, aged, and infirm ladies. Sisters op Charity of Cutcikkati, Ohio (cf. C.

and the protection of working girls. It has 8 E., XIV-28a).— Mother Mary Florence Kent suc-

academies, and is in diarge of 14 public schools ceeded Mother Mary Blancne Davis in 1911 and

and 7 parochial schools. It has 3 hospitals, a held the office of Mother Superior imtil 1917. Dur-

home for working girls, one for aged ladies, an ing the first years of her term the foundation of

orphanage for boys, one for girls, and a foundling the new Good Samaritan on Dixsmyth and Clifton

asylum. On the completion of the first building Avenues was laid and two wings of the hospital

at Mount St. Vincent on Bedford Basin the mother- were built. The commimity took charge of the St.

house was translated to it 15 August, 1873. By an William School, Price Hill, Cincinnati, and of the

act of legislature Mount St. Vmcent enjoys the Corpus Christi School, Dayton, Ohio, in 1912; of

privilege of a normal school for the training of its the St. Sebastian School, Chicago, in 1913; of the

own members for positions in the public schools Holy Name School, Cleveland, Ohio, and of the An-

of the provinces. The novitiate is attached to the nunciation School, Clifton, Cincinnati, in 1914. The

mother-house, and the institute numbers about 700 St. Rita Institute, a boarding school for the deaf

members. at St. Rita Heights, near Xockland, Ohio, was

Sisters op Charitt of Nazareth (cf. C. £., founded on 17 October, 1915, when the Sisters took

X-'724d) celebrated the centennial of their founda- their pupils thither from the school in Cincinnati,

tion in 1912. In the same year occurred the death In 1916-17 the Sisters had temporary charge of St.

of Mother Eutropia McMahon, the first Mother Teresa's Home for the Aged.

General elected, in 1911, according to the new Mother Mary Bertha Armstrong succeeded to

Constitution of the Order. She devoted her ener- the office of Mother Superior in July, 1917, and

gies to many good works, encouraged educational was re-elected in 1920. During her first term of

activities, and improved the Academy. She was office the influenza following; the World War spread

succeeded by Mother Rose Meagher, elected 19 over the country and she imitated the example of

July, 1912, and re-elected in 1918 for a second term her predecessors of cholera and Civil War periods

of six years. Since 1911 the following foundations by permitting the Sisters to serve as volunteer

have been made: Nazareth School, South Boston, nurses in the infected districts of Ohio, Kentucky,

Mass.; St. Ann's School, Morganfield, Ky. (1912) ; Michigan, Colorado, and New Mexico. As in the

St. Agnes' Sanitarium, St. Agnes' Parochial School, earlier days, the community enrolled names of

and St. Helena's Commercial College, Louisville, martyrs to the cause. The new Code of Canon

Ky. (1913); St. Dominic's School, Columbus, Ohio Law coming into effect at this time made but one

(1914); St. Peter's Parochial School, Lexington, change in the constitutions of the community,

Ky. (1916) ; Nazareth School, Roanoke, Va. (1916) ; that of requiring the heads of institutions to be

Sacred Heart Academy, Klamath Falls, Oregon changed at the end of six years. The College of

(1917); St. Theresa House, Lynn, Mass., a gift of Mount St. Joseph-on-the-Ohio with its normal de-

Mgr. Teeling to St. Mary's Parish and a real home partment was chartered under the laws of Ohio in

for working girls (1918); Hinde-Ball Mercy Hospi- April. 1920, and opened to students in September

tal. Mount Vernon, Ohio (1919). In 1911 the Sis- ot the same year. The community numbers ters resumed teaching at St. Louisville, Ky., and in 1914

Thomas' Parochial School on _ ,

Nazareth. Nazareth Academy was affiliated with school for colored children. It has 9 hospitals and the State University in 1913 and with the Catholic sanitariums, 1 infant asylum and maternity hoe- University of America in 1914. The opening of pital, 1 Italian Institute for welfare work, and a Nazareth College at Louisville, Ky., on 4 October, day nuVsery. It has charge of domestic affairs 1920, was to meet the demand for higher education of Mount St. Mary's of the West and of the of women, and it is the first woman's Catholic diocesan orphanage and owns and conducts an college in Louisville. orphanage in Santa F6, New Mexico. The school

The mother-bouse of the Society, situated at in connection with the Church of the Resurrection,