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Title: Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Minogue, Anna Catherine, b. 1874
Subjects: Dominican Sisters. Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena (St. Catherine, Ky.) -- History
Publisher: New York : F. Pustet, (1921?)
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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eneral of theOrder. Among the first to enter Saint Mary wasSister Rose Lynch whose name is inseparably as-sociated with the Dominicans of Ohio. In 1833,Mother Angela Sansbury followed her little com-munity to Somerset. By it she was again called tothe arduous duties of prioress, which office she helduntil her holy and beautiful death, on March 30,1839. This first foundation of the Dominican Sisterswas destined to become a motive power for religionand education in Ohio, and in turn to be the prolificmother of other missions. With an increasing num-ber of pupils and a growing community, the sistersenlarged their home until in 1866, Saint Mary wasone of the recognized institutions of learning in Ohio.That year, fire reduced the splendid institution toashes, and the community, all but crushed by thedisaster, knew not where to turn for relief. But the stroke of misfortune was really a dooropened for them into a world of wider possibilities.A friend, Theodore Leonard, an old resident of Co-
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X FiiiST Bkancu House 73 luirfbus, came to the rescue, donating to them thirty-two acres of land near the capital city. Mr. Leonardalso gave ten thousand dollars toward the erectionof the buildings, to which a like sum was added byEugene Mageveny of Memphis, Tennessee. Thesisters gratefully accepted the generous gift, andthus the beautiful Saint Mary of the Springs, on theedge of Columbus, sprang from the ashes of SaintMary of Somerset.* Death and the new foundation at Somerset hadthinned the ranks of the community of Saint MaryMagdalen, yet animated by the spirit of Saint Dom-inic, the sisters continued with their God-appointedwork. In the story of a life or of an institution, wesometimes find invaluable aid coming from an un-expected and perhaps humble source. This now en-ters the history of this struggling Dominican com-munity, and no name is held more gratefully in re-membrance by it than that of a lowly benefactor. Oneevening, at sunset, an old man, sitting in acovered wagon, dra

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