Regis College - Mount Regis Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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dedicated their lives to the amelioration of the distress- ful conditions of the peasants and serfs. The growing community founded an additional house at Lyons in 1696 . Into those convents of peace and service came the terror of the French Revolution. Many nuns and abbesses in refusing to swear to the Civil Constitution were vic- tims of “La Belle Guillotine.” The artistic masterpiece, “The Supreme Sacrihee” has caught their tremendous, inspiring piety. Out of the chaos emerged those who had escaped martyrdom to begin the task of reorganization under Mother Saint John Fontbonne. nscathed by the lawlessness of war, the order sent six pioneers from Lyons, at the invitation of Bishop John Rosati of St. Louis, to endure the rigors of a strange land, to found their first establishment in America at Carondo- let, a small French village on the outskirts of St. Louis. tom the nucleus of Carondolet, the organization has expanded to every corner of the United States. With Sister Mary Regis, as Superior, the Boston congregation was instituted in 1873 - 3 n the establishment of Regis College came the ful- fillment of a cherished dream, a reality of ideals, and principles firmly rooted in Weston soil, flowering into beauty of architecture in buildings and in souls. jWaSSattMisfits, Junf, I

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WE’VE A STORY TO TELL Regis College, atop a promontory commanding a sweeping panorama of scenic splendor. Floating over the rolling hills, pleasant valleys, and mirrors of blue, ring out the carillon chimes from the stone casements of the Norman Tower. ’Neath the shadow of that majestic spire nestles the Grotto, the Court of Our Lady, bound by patterned garden paths, down which slowly pace stately forms, black-robed and black-veiled — the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Patience robed in humility, endurance veiled with charity, they brought to this summit, piety, learning, and understanding. Here was founded in 1927 a college for the higher education of young women, named in honor of Mother Mary Regis, Founder of the Boston Congregation. oung in years, old in traditions, Regis is permeated with the spirit and ideals nurtured through the centuries by its Founders. Three hundred years ago in Le Puy, the capital of the ancient province of Velay in France, a dauntless band of women established the Order of the Sisters of St. Joseph, under the guidance of Henry de Maupas, Bishop of that city and pupil of St. Vincent de Paul, and the Reverend John Peter Medaille ' , S.J., the famous apostle of Velay and successor to the missionary held of St. John Francis Regis. spiring to the virtues of St. Joseph, patron of labor and model of contemplative souls, those devoted women 0i l egib College at IS eston,

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