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to the office (1887-99, 1902-8); memorials of her zeal 516a). — ^These Sisters, with mother-house at Bourg.
are the beautiful chapel in the mother-house, St. have a novitiate at New Orleans, La., in the Unit^
Michael's Hospital, Toronto, and St. Joseph's States, where they conduct establisnments in the
Hospital, Port Arthur, erected during her administra^ archdioceses of Cincinnati, Dubuque, New Orleans,
tion. and the founding of many libranes for the spread and St. Paul and in the dioceses of Duluth, Natchez,
of Catholic literature in poor localities. Sister M. and Superior. There are in the United States 175
Emerentia Lonerean, esteemed and revered as Sisters m charge of 25 schools, 1 orphan hospital^ 1
teacher, literary devotee, and religious, for sixteen industrial school, 1 asvlum, and 1 home for workmg
years secretary general of the congregation, also girls, with 2500 pupils under their instruction,
editor of "St. Joseph's Lilies." Sister M. Austin Siateraof St, Joseph of Chamb^ry (cf.C.¥^.fVlH —
McKay-Wamock, prominent educationalist and at 516b). — Mother Leonide continued to govern the
the time of her death head of the faculty of St. congregation until 1919. Her generalate was a
Joseph's University College, having made a brilliant troubled one, having witnessed the closing; of so many
course of studies there, winning the Edward Blake of the houses in F^wce; as assistant, m 1903, she
Scholarship, the Geoige Brown Scholarship, and the took up the tanj^ed threads of the government at
Italian pnze granted by the minister of foreign an inauspicious tune. It was a great care for her to
affairs for Italv. provide for the needs of so many of her Sisters who
At present (l921) there are 18 foundations of the were scattered far and wide. In August, 1912, the
institute: 13 in the Diocese of Toronto and 5 in congregation celebrated the hundredth anniversary of
Western Canada. The Sisters number 400. They the foundation of the mother-house at Chamb^ry.
conduct a university college, 4 academies, 1 high In the early stages of the war the Sisters had to flee
school, and 30 separate schools with a total attendance from Odessa, and before the war was over^g^the
of 8903 pupils. They are also in chax*^ of 3 ho&- Russian province was practically annihilated. While
pitals whicn have an annual registration of 5891 Russia was with the Allies, tniee of the Hospital
patients, a House of Providence for the poor and the Sisters of Petrograd followed the army as nurses, and
aged with 420 inmates, and an orphana^ for 225 were captured by the Germans. They were liberated
children. The present superior general is Mother some time later, through the influence of the Danish
M. Victoria, elected in 1920. government, and returned to Petrograd. Under the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Annecy (cf. C. E., VIII — Soviet Government, several Sisters were imprisoned,
515d). — ^The mother-house of the Sisters of St. Joseph some for months, but God ever watched over them,
of tiie English province is at Annecy, Savoy. Finally, the Sisters, not being able to render service
At present the congregation has 19 houses m to their neighbor, and being constantly in danger of
France, and 6 in Switzerland. The Sisters in the imprisonment, decided to leave Russia, with the
Province of Annecy are engaged in teaching 10 exception of a few who were Russian subjects, and
schools for poor children, and 3 boarding schools, therefore could not obtain passports. During the
each of which latter has a finishing course for training occupation of Blegium, the Sisters kept their schools
girls in housekeeping. The Sisters have charge open and, in spite of great privations, lived to witness
of 8 hospitals ana hostels, 3 houses where nursing the return of the King. In the war countries and in the
Sisters reside who go to nurse the sick m their homes, adjacent neutral countries, the Sisters distinguished
and from 12 of the existing houses the Sisters visit themselves by the help they gave to the wounded or
and tend the sick. They aGo have 1 orphanage, and the passing regiments. Several governments awarded
in 5 of the houses there are work-rooms and organiza- medieds and crosses to members of the congregation
tions for the protection of girls and for procuring them for the services rendered. A gold medal was awarded
em^03rment. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Annecy, to the congregation in token ofgratitude by the French
in En^and, are entirely devoted to the teaching government; 55 medals were given to individual
profession. There are 6 houses of the congregation Sisters, of which three were from the King of Greece,
m England: Newport (the provincial house and and six from Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. During
novitiate), Devizes, Malmesbury, Bristol, Clifton, the war the Sisters opened an ambulance hospitu
Taunton. The last was founded in 1920 and the near the mother-house at Chamb^ry. another at
Sisters took charge there of the elementary schools. Courbevoie, Seine. The two hospitals of Aix-les-
at the desire of the Bishop of Clifton. The total Bains (Savoie) and one at Rumilly (Savoie) were
number of pupils taught by the Sisters in the elemen- converted into ambulances. In all of these, the
tary schools m Engdand is about 2500. The Sisters Sisters devoted themselves to the care of the wounded
have charge of 10 schools. They also have 2 boarding and the dying. At the age of eighty-two, after a
schools to which are attached large day schools, with life devoted to the interests of her congregation,
a total of about 500 pupils. At Blairs College, Mother Leonide died at Chamb^ry, 17 January, 1919.
Aberdeen, Scotland, there are 13 Sisters in charge At the General Chapter held in August, 1919,
of the domestic arrangements and housework of the Mother Mary Sacred Heart was elected superior
college. At Newport and in all the other houses of general. Some months after the Sisters of Tamopol
the congregation in England, the Sisters devote (Galicia) had to flee before the advancing army of
their evenings to instructing and preparing non- the BoLaheviki and abandon their convent and school.
Catholic women for reception into the Catholic Within the last few years, several houses have been
Church. They also visit the sick and poor in their reopened in France, new foundations made and the
homes as well as in the hospitals, and help many to novitiate has been repeopled. Soon after her election,
die well. The Sisters in England (1921) number in the superior general unaertook a journey to some of
all 89 members. In the Province of Vizagapatam, the provinces, Rome, Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
India, the Sisters of St. Joseph are in charge of 8 and Brazil.
schools, 5 for Europeans and 3 for natives; 2 boarding The following new foundations have been made:
schools^ 4 orphanages; 4 dispensaries; 1 work depot; in Italy; a school, kindergarten, and sewing class
3 hospitals. The number taught and cared for by (1912) in Tuscany: in Denmark, four schools and one
the Sisters is about 5000 children and 270 orphans, academy; in Brazil, one academy and two hospitals;
They nurse in the hospitals and at their homes, in the United States: five schools, of which one
about 8200 sick persons every yeex. In their mis- academy is in Stamford, Conn., one parochial school
sionary journeys they baptize, on an average, 6000 in West Haven, Conn., a school for boys in Deep
children in artundo mortis. River, Conn., two schools in St. Mary's County,
Sisters of St. Joseph of Bourg (cf. C. £., VIII — Md. At present 150 houses belong to the congre-
