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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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tention to choir duty. Her death occurred on the eveof her patronal feast, July 21, 1865, and her burialon the feast itself. A singular incident took placeon this occasion. Scarcely had the grave been cov-ered, when the low plaintive notes of the Salve Re-gina floated to the ears of the sisters, who were stillpaying the last sad tribute to the remains of SisterMagdalen. They knew its import at such a time. Ittold that the inevitable call had come to another oftheir band, that another soul was in its death agony.Hastening to the infirmary, they found that SisterVallina Montgomery, the life-long friend and asso-ciate of Sister Magdalen, had passed to her reward.Sister Vallina was a most efficient and earnest teach-er, and her promptness and fidelity to duty are stillremembered with love and reverence by some of theolder members of the community. The third prioress was Mother Helen Whelan. Sheand her cousin, Sister Rose Tennelly, entered thecommunity together and made their profession on
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1. Mother Rose Tennelly 2. Mother Cohimba ^Yalsh 3. Mother Helen Whelan 4. Mother Angela Lynch 5. Mother Regina OMeara 6. Mother Mary Benven Rnmpf 7. ^lotlier Mncent Ferrer Thompson 8. Mother Bernardine Biisluie1>. Mother Agnes Hunt 10. ^lother Mary Aquin Holleran 11. ^lother Franoesea Kearney 12. ^lother Magdalen Xorton Eai:ly Membeiis of the Conghegatiox 03 the same day, August 4,1827. Twiee they alternatedas prioress of Saint Catharine. Mother Helen servedin that capacity from 1832 to 1835, from 1838 to 1841,and again from 1853 to 1856. She had the happy fac-ulty of winning hearts and filling them with holyjoy. Like her predecessors, she labored to increasethe spiritual forces of the society. Steadfastly sheworked, watched and prayed, and heaven did not failthe heart whose faith ever soared upward. It wasduring her first term of office that cholera becameepidemic in Washington County. Throughout thisdire visitation, Mother Helens burdens were heavyand her anxiety for the safety

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