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

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L lt LIIL S 1 t mm ts txxn stmx nlxulling, xii f f v to the ielign L I L i Une sinni. Ol x s ine pl in txt tlieie nutles uit eshl x Ile ue xltg in utunstieln tpeuninentlehgnnn im L ll e lm elin t t e uniennttin n L se IL t t i su erin t e i t nm L li bless ienil ut ii 0 Nlotliei Seton s pissing, x is c ll n ci L s TH 1 x tux the new L its nntp num IL Out into the gum iiitn r s 5 L tw L L th in tie 1 lhe ln 1 L 1 X 1 Ss of t e xinnif trip x is t uses nl i int in u Ol tie mm mt su ui f Xnt then in tie L itle 4 rl list Lent the ll n ix tie ininitsung, :stuns limn the xeix beginning 1 its stn xslt ut x t ug, liner ic. Ll 11 0 0 intl sn 1 is the xxlnte mnfu k1lI2,5lllfLlSOI Xlntli 1 Seton tie L L it L ol tie gg S n ent L inns to nntuxoitlix tliingc in Sunt usepll s X il x Inst iitlilnsi 0 in llu flies rnmlelul his min wnnnun 1 tilt lnuntlu In N mtlie Se intl ulopret ie Wit 1 L 1 s Je 11 e t L Lrrnlln 0 xx nte winette s iuni x is u ries int 1 Q inun T 711 L x mx s BIILIXL S5LSHILl1lI ei t tie l mnntsn r ti C0l1Q'lLf,lfI0l1'sfllLX li ue lounilul in l ennsxlx 1ni1 anal New Li-.ex Cnntinu it 4 int Lint ness to the x ning, intl lie plus in I the ll'l'llCfLkllIlQ't.I1Ll1l L itiei Seton his sinte letl countless utliels into emu uit our gi countix xxhue nnseix intl Slllltllllg final ignoi inte an ut them Out 'across the lllklldll hunting grounds thu pushed uen to the outslxnts of cnilill 'li ll If UIXI I lilil-1 l'li IQ I3 gi-'z ziriny nl' lXIIl 1liS eunseerzitetl wmnzinliuml vuluntecretl their ser- vieeg :intl tlieir lives fm' tlie L'2lllSC nl' Lilirist in tlie Repulwlie. yet in its in- fg nex'. .Xnl innst ul' ull, it was in tliis ln-r ' '- ' f 'I ieli lrnni tlie lmegwinnine lititl stezulili' reeeivetl new 2lSlll'1lIlfS ' 'wus Iif- tliait l'ill!1lllL'fl1 was nznnetl Iiexll ul tli' nziseent euininunity :intl rzis tli' '-lwi'wz1l'tlknuwr' nnly :is Nll ill llfli SITIVUN. ln tlie L'Zll'ly Q rer of ISIN tlle little liuine on l':1e:i Street wus QIITIIIMIOHCLI for tlie new-f intl regt' f 1 in tlie lfininitslvurg valley. where 4 lziy liin tI1'.'ztlm'iit'l'l5l 'l lle ii :':ll s 1 i Shin' nl' tlie .Xnierieain Sisters of Cliz 'ity'. ll're in tliis sznne spot of i ess zinl lmly trzitlitinn tllese first liritles of Christ uilwl ' ' gli' i tli' eainf ' nl etluezitiun. tlie pour, zintl tlieir own S1lIlL'flIlC11I'lUl1. Ile itw11s lint NIU lier Setnn, wi rn out lay lier yezirs ul' 5 Il g xintl privzltiuns. tlietl on blzinnziry -I. ISII. zin I tli- seene ol' lier l2llNJl'S :intl the erzulle of Iier umler lmew 'tli's1ieretl tornliol' er :tell 1 ins. I5 tlie I iur I . Q' f V: 3 ine nl' triunipli 'ztlier thu wt' strungletl lwpe :intl s rrow: for it was 21 lay of gig, al 'ie 'y to - - '-lmrn I lrtler us W -ll as tu' 5 sz' 'tl lf 1-iss. ' ' ' '- ing 1 i In Iier lD11LIg,,l1fCl',' ienetrute I t 5 'e tli fir own itlezils :intl use of lflifzllaetli Seton rezllizetl in ll euntinurnis striv' 51 for I 'lest. M ' luck cup, wliieli lizul lmeen :uluptetl in tlie L'2ll'ly kl1ll'S zit St. bluseplfs. IJCCQIIIIC 11 fal- llllli21l'IlgII'C in tlle cities :intl villz ges wliere 1110 I inerie: n 'i.ters A Chair- ity liaitl upenetl their selmnls for Ii' ,' 5 :intl ' hzinetl, as Yell if heir lin 'iiereyz lufgef ' I'i 'z lxff- ng,. . l ' ' lx tle': - if y'L'2ll'S tlizit fnllowetl the niitltlle halt' of ie :S N' ury X I glair of lvlziek. :is wur lv' I ' If i sl 'f i' ' ' I ' . liut nut in its entirety by NI rtlier Seton herself, was luitl zlsitle :intl in ' 5 5 'ntl tlie-' ini 'ltlie tlistinetive tlress ol' greyisli lilue, vitli lie la ' fe ' 'i I 'zul- em'-'iiit r e rnette, 1 iee lizive been lan iwn if 1 ' ' '- 'i g,,'l li if Q . e ' Q' . I '.Xni'riez1n 'l1'l lrln i I ' k rent .il1.1f Yin- C' . Six y 1ll'S PFCV. 5 this ' ' ' I' ' 1 2' fx' 'Q I-1 - ley, Nei' Yimrlfs 1 flop, I 5, ' ' ' X - ity of Sisters ul' Clinrity' 1 n I 1 i ' I f. li 'r f itun.: 1 ' I rl ' lizil' :intl cup ut' lvlnela :ls wurn zt St. slosq I1': l -I r' li- ' ' g f the 'I' ' ' ' I '. 'liliip eonin 'tl' ol' llfliop ll el 1 l rl at of N 7 Hilti. ll lwruneli of the l'lininitslnurg5 loumlzitimi :intl estulwlislietl in 1852 as ll sei: 'ut' Societe. :ire tmlny km vn 11: the 1 ian Qitir: ' ' z 'ity. ilili have sulnstzin inlly tlie rule of I - 'I ' :l ire Sisters :intl wi l the in tl ' spirit nl' Xlotller Seton and Saint Yineent their ininistrutinns of l we al 'rc 1: 'I-.1-at ' i illli- sunxe lieroie spirit which inspired the little lmnd in the days of Mm I -' ' iz ' of ' 'cat