St Margarets Academy - Dayseye Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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North Entrance St. Margaret's Hall In sacred trust we leave with thee Our hearts to guard where'er we be, As thou hast blest and shielded all In the sacred precincts of thy ivied wall.

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Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet One century ago a clarion call crossed the crest-tipped Atlantic and sounded its note at the convent doors of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Lyons. Bishop Rosati of St. Louis needed missionary Sisters in his diocese in America. The Sisters of St. Joseph were summoned and responded with eager and enthusiastic hearts. On January seventeenth. 1836, the first little mission band watched the shores of sunny France vanish in the distance and turned hopeful, trusting faces toward America. The Sisters brought with them from France traditions rich in valiant courage, in deep devotion, and in loyalty to duty. The pioneer Sisters of France had known want, hardship, and the terrors of war. Nearly two hundred years before, a small group of eager, ardent young women, in answer to the urgent call of Bishop de Maupas, assembled in the home of Madame de Joux, in Lc Puy for their novitiate training before making vows. On October fifteenth, 1650, in a dimly lighted chapel these young girls consecrated their lives to the service of God as the first Sisters of St. Joseph. On that occasion Bishop de Maupas, handing to the daughters of France a cross said, ''Wear it openly; bear it bravely just as Christ did up anguished heights. Carry it down the ways of pain, into homes of fever, into the warrens of the poor; bear it to far lands. Let it be your oriflame to light you to victory. Mother St. John I-ontuonni .Superior-Genera! of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Lyons, France The cross given the first Sisters of St. Joseph has been their consolation. They wore it openly; they bore it bravely. The little order grew rapidly in its infant years, and by 1778, it had established a firm foothold in many parts of France. It was then that the French Revolution broke out, spreading devastating havoc over the country. At the outbreak of this terrible siege. Mother Saint John Fontbonne, a native of Bas, was appointed Superior of the Sisters in Monistrol. Gracious, capable, and courageous, Sister Fontbonne made an impressive figure as Mother of the order. Straight and firmly did she steer her little clientele, even when the ravages of the Revolution stalked through their ranks cruelly driving them from the convent, forcing them to take refuge at the Fontbonne home in Bas. After two years of clandestine labor the Sisters were discovered by their persecutors and thrust into Mother House of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Lyons