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

 - Class of 1929

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Page 23 text:

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G12 1029 Qffcscmi Vzsztatzon Alumnae Assoczatzon Born in a year of unusual activity 1904 the year of the great world s fair in Saint Louis something of the spirit of that great enterprise entered into the organization of the Alumnae Association of the Visitation and endowed it with the gifts of hearty co operation and generous service so that its twenty live years have been Hlled with good works The Hrst thought of these loyal daughters of the Visitation that made up its membership was their Alma Mater and their first act even before their formal organization was to make of the Chapel a worthy home for the Blessed Sacrament a home where they and their children and their children s children might kneel and pray and receive their First Holy Communion After this they turned their attention to another pressing need of the Academy an entertainment hall So vast an undertaking seemed impossible for so young an organization but by 1912 they began the building of our dramatic productions of which Visitation is so justly proud and which stands as a magnificent tribute of the affection of the children of the Visitation for their community This was not enough however their generosity must reach further and in 1927 a scholarship fund of five thousand dollars was given to the Academy This gift was followed in 1928 by a Jubilee gift of six hundred dollars for the laying of a new hardwood floor in the community Chapel Their mterest in education has stretched beyond the convent walls In 1926 the Association became a Founder Association of the Missouri Chapter s S10 000 scholarship for the SISICIS of the Missouri Chapter whose Alumnae ASSOCIBIIOHS are affiliated with the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae Surely with works like these to their credit and there are many others less outstanding the members of the Alumnae of Visitation may justly feel proud of their well filled twenty live years They may truly feel worthy of the praise and congratulations that were showered upon them and their generous work when the silver jubilee of the Association was celebrated last year with a record breaking attendance of its five hundred members Page N meteen beautiful Alexis Hall-a building which has made possible the excellent

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CE 1999 Qrcsccnl Chzldren of Mary Sodalzty The flourishing Association of the Children of Mary of the Visitation has grown from a small school sodality founded in 1887 at the St de Chantal Academy of the Visitation then located at 4012 Washington Avenue Some of the former pupils of the Academy having begged to join the students the membership soon grew too great for the tiny parlor chapel and in 1892 the Sodality was transferred to the large Academy at Cabanne Here for twenty years under the direction of the beloved Sister Mary Paula Peters the organiza tion grew amazmgly and entered upon its life of varied and useful activity The most important of the good works undertaken and one which has grown to such proportions that a special organization has been necessary to care for it IS the sewing for poor churches This work was originated through the zeal of Mrs Julius S Walsh Another work is the visiting of the sick poor often in company with the Sisters of the Little Helpers of the Holy Souls Besides this the Sodality collects books and magazines for institutions helps to teach catechism in the poor parishes and in institutions gives generous aid in Catholic social settlement work and is always among the first to help in To the generosity of the Sodality and to individual members the Convent owes many of the beautiful thmgs in the chapel and throughout the house Among these gifts are a handsome set of white and gold vestments generous donations which made possible the erection of the beautiful marble altar statues an altar railing and an electric chandelier The latest addition to its long list of benefactions is the magnificent gold monstrance presented in Novem ber 1928 to Mother Raphael as a jubilee gift the lacquering and burnishing of the sanctuary lamp credence table censers and numerous other articles in use for the Divine Services the two chalices a ciborlum monstrance com munion plate and missal stand repaired and gold plated while gifts were made of six new sets of vestments a preaching stole Benediction Burse a banner a complete repository outfit for Holy Thursday and a double altar bread cutter The Sodality is blessed w1th many spiritual privileges an annual retreat and numerous Holy Masses for the intentions of the members many of them offered through the gratitude of the priests and missionaries who have experi enced their bountiful generosity The deceased are remembered with two Masses and a general Communion at the time of death with a monthly Mass and a Requiem High Mass in November Paae Twenty -KJ ,. I I 2 I g B - f-. J time of public calamity.

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