Academy of the Visitation - Crescent Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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To Mother B II'Xl 'VlCCKRf'1 9 years To us that ue mlght know Hrs boundless love And non we consetrate to you the hours The happy hours ut spent wrthxn these walls Our schoolgxrl fantasles our spark lmg dreams Our youthful hopes and more than all of these We grve to you our grateful lovlng hearts Dear 'Vlother Xxffgjl , .N C C p- t , . ' X4 4 O 1 s . . E' p . - 4 Q :A ,Q X . , ' 3 3 to ' . ii H I 1 , f . :n ' l .. . , Q , 5 , 9- .- 1 .4 ' ' l D4 lu S I , ,U , - ' 2. f ' . Q 3 f I J H ' L f a E K ...t ., A. A A ' Q

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'NEKQSW Dedzcatzon pure as the srlver of her Jub1lee Year her chrl dren ded1cate fh1S Cres cent to the hvmg eX presslon of the spurt of the VISIYQIIOH Mother Mary Raphael Kelly 0 With an afection as

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Faq-121090 Qusctnl ANNECY l 610 The last rays of the scttlng sun peermg through the wmdows of the tmy chapel of the h1stor1c Chateau de Sales fell like a warm benedlctron upon the figure of a man rapt 1n an ecstasy of prayer Thxs ecstasy was to be most frurtful for the glory of the Church for of that mystrc unron of the loung heart of the sarntly Francrs de Sales and the meffable love of the Heart of God was concerved the relrglous Order of the VIS 1tat1on This Order the Benjamm of My affectrons as Our Lord Hlmself desrgnated If to Hrs Servant Margaret Mary and whlch later was to be entrusted wlth the m1ss1on of renewmg ln the world the knowledge of the love of the Sacred Heart for men was founded June srxth 1610 rn Annecy a l1t tle town of Savoy by St Francls de Sales and St Ieanne Francrs de Chantal GEORGETOWN D C 1816 For two hundred years the Order grew and spread over Europe carryrng on rts splendrd work for the Church formmg young grrls who were sent 1nto the world to be as stars set for the regeneratron of many and spreadmg far and wrde the knowledge of the love of the Heart of Chrlst But there were other countrles that needed rts beneficent mfluences and mto the heart of an emled JCSUII prlest God sent Hrs 1n sprratron to found the Order 1n the Umted States Vklrth three women natlves of Ire land th1S prrest Pr Neale now Brshop of Georgetown began hrs work After herorc struggles agarnst poverty and opposrtron from al sides the Order was at last firmly establxshed ln 1816 when BlShOp Neale S J became Archbrshop of Baltrmore KASKASKIA ILLINOIS 1833 In Aprrl 1833 the now flourrshxng Con vent at Georgetown felt rtself strong enough Paae Ten ZvQiSfYQzfLJs.r,