St Peters High School - Gatekeeper Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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I2 'I' ll Ii ti .X 'I' lf li If If I' If R made her first lloly Connnunion. 'lihe joy and consolation which filled her heart were indeed Ciod's compensation for the sacrifice she had to make in becoming a Catholic, for never was any one more lonely or more deserted by friends and kindred than lilizabeth Seton. She opened a little school in Stuyvesant's Lane, Bowery, near St. Klarles Church, but owing to the intense feeling of religious prejudice that her conversion excited, the ven- ture was a failure. XVhen Bishop Carroll had learned of the trials of the widowed convert he urged her to come to Baltimore, which as yet had no school for Catho- lic girls. 'lihe words of John Carroll were to her at once a revelation, a challenge and an inspiration, and bidding farewell to the city of her birth . 1' ,yrs -s..fY'?:t '? 549' Il l .Ivy ,IW Sat. Elnsepifs Gnlnllege, ffmmetshurg, 514111. and the friends and haunts of childhood, she departed for the southland. She arrived in the harbor of Baltimore june 15, 1808, and the following day, the l east of Corpus Christi, first set foot on the soil of Nlaryland. 'lihis day is memorable in the history of Charity and lfducation in the United States. lt was in the house on Paca Street where the frail little woman in widow's garments had opened her school for girls that the American Sis- ters of Charity came into being. Here within the seclusion of the taber- nacle, as she herslf expressed it, this persecuted exile passed her novitiate both as a religious and as a teacher. Here it was that,too, the first of the