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POSSUMUS The words, We can, above the shield on the coat-of-arms of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the St. Paul Province express the spirit of faith which inspired them in the hundred years from 1851 to 1951 in which they have labored in the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota. The field of wavy lines against a background of white represents the Mississippi River on the banks of which the Sisters made their first home on Bench Street in St. Paul, and from which their missionary endeavors were to spread to all parts of the Northwest. The lily or fleur-de-lis represented on the right half of the shield is one of the national emblems of France, mother country of the first Sisters of St. Joseph, as well as the symbol of their patron, St. Joseph, guardian of youthful purity. The sword of St. Paul, which cuts the field of the shield into halves, stands for the valiant Apostle of the Gentiles, the special heavenly protector of our Archdiocese. It also represents the sword of truth, which by their educational institutions, the Sisters of St. Joseph hold aloft. I The palm of martyrdom seen on the left half is a reminder of the heroic death of seven Sisters of St. Joseph who gave their lives on the guillotine during the French Revolution. It is symbolic, too, of the courage with which the followers of these Sisters carried their spirit into America and into the Northwest, where they hoped to bring the message of the Gospel to the Indians. FOREWORD
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DEDICATION One hundred years ago, on October 23, 1851, four Sisters of St. Joseph, Sister St. John Fournier, Sister Philomene Vil-aine, Sister Scholastica Vasques, and Sister Francis Joseph Ivory, left the shelter of their convent at Carondelet, Missouri, and boarded a steamboat headed for the unknown wilds of what is now the State of Minnesota. Like their Patron, Saint Joseph, as he traveled far into the vast stretches of Egypt with Mary and her Infant Son, they too were setting out on a journey that would take them into the midst of strangers, many of them pagans; for the St. Paul of those days had been described to them as a wild frontier town where Indians in gay blankets stalked the streets and scalping was still known. The history of the hundred years that followed tells the story of an increase in numbers from the original four to the one-thousand ninety-two Sisters of today. Their many schools, hospitals, and orphanages throughout the Northwest are proofs of the success of their efforts as they share with St. Joseph the apostolate of instructing youth and aiding the weak and unprotected. To the Sisters of St. Joseph, we, the Seniors of 1951, gratefully dedicate our DAYESYE, with the prayerful hope that God will continue to bless their efforts as they enter upon the unknown stretches of a new century.
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